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The War IVork of A. P. H. S. 

A Record of the JVar Activities of the 
High School at As bury Park, N. jf. 

1917-19 




BY 

FREDERICK E. MALICK, A. M. 

Head of the Department of History in the High School 
at Asbury Park, N. J. 



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PREFACE 

At the suggestion of the State Department of Education it 
was decided to compile a record of the war activities of our high 
school from the time the United States entered the war until 
its close. 

The work has required many tedious hours in its preparation. 
But this time, taken from the hours of recreation, has been given 
freely and gladly by all who shared in this patriotic duty. For 
we have kept in mind that we were working not merely to leave 
a faithful record of these things, but that we were doing some- 
thing for the boys who left all and went out from out midst, some 
of them never to return. Our chief motive has been to do this 
small service in grateful remembrance of their great sacrifices 
and noble deeds. 

In compiling this record the editor has drawn freely from 
the war issues of the Beacon, our school paper. He has been 
aided in the collection of material by the students in his history 
classes. He desires, also, to acknowledge the efficient work of 
the typewriting department under Miss Mildred Bullock in the 
preparation of the first draft of the work. 



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CONTENTS 



I. The United States Enters the War 5 

II. Funds for the War 7 

III. The Work of the Faculty 9 

IV. The Red Cross Work 15 

V. Girls Work on the Farms 20 

VI. The Girls Patriotic League 22 

VII. War Speeches Before the School 23 

VIII. The Effects of the War on the Curriculum 25 

IX. Alumni who Died in the Service 26 

X. Individual Records of Students and Alumni in the 

Service , 39 

XL The Students Army Training Corps 68 

XII. Notes on Students and Alumni in the Service 70 

XIII. The End of the War 73 

XIV. A Collection of Songs Used in School During the War yy 

XV. A List of Students and Alumni in the Service 85 



Copyright, 192^ 
By Frederick E. Ma! : ek, Asbury Park, N. J, 



FEB 141921 



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CHAPTER I 

THE UNITED STATES ENTERS THE WAR 

America was patient and long suffering in spite of intolerable 
German offenses against our domestic peace and safety and ag- 
gressions on our rights on the sea. But at last the nation awoke 
and with furious might turned upon the common assailant of its 
own rights and those of humanity. 

Every part of the country felt the thrill and answered the 
call. Our school was active from the beginning. Not many weeks 
after the summons to arms our boys began enlisting in the cavalry 
at Red Bank. Others who could not go, gave up school work 
to go to the farms and do their bit on the home front. 

The spirit pervading the student body is well represented in 
an editorial of the school paper taken from the issue of November 
1917. It is as follows : 

"This issue of the Beacon finds the United States involved 
in the greatest war recorded in history. Every effort is being 
used to make the world safe for democracy. Our own school has 
responded to the call of the nation not only by the purchasing of 
bonds to help carry on the war, but in units for the building up 
of the army. It is through no lack of patriotism that a greater 
number of our students are kept from following, but rather the 
limitations placed by the government as to the required qualifica- 
tions. Not only the student body but the faculty as well is repre- 
sented in the vast army now assembling. Our hope is that Right 
will triumph over Might before our boys have been many months 
in the trenches. Those of us who remain at home will ever bear 
in mind the ones who voluntarily gave themselves at the time of 
their country's need." 

Thus with patriotic enthusiasm we turned to war and sacri- 
fice. And yet underneath there were other feelings, too. These 
were beautifully expressed in verse by Ruth Steinberg, '17 and 
the lines are appended below. 



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"Ensnared by Mars, thou peace abiding world, 
Thy sons in deadly conflict have been hurled. 
When once thy nations were with all at peace, 
Then did thy race and industry increase. 
But now thy sons' and daughters' hearts do yearn, 
For their dear ones from battle to return. 
Let's pray to God that peace He soon will send, 
That war and desolation then will end." 



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CHAPTER II 

FUNDS FOR THE WAR 

Probably the most important war activity of the school, or 
at least the one most generally engaged in, was that one which had 
to do with the securing of funds both for the use of the govern- 
ment and other private organizations engaged in war work. 

During the war the government put across five great loans 
amounting in all to about twenty billions of dollars. Every town 
had its quota which it had to meet in order to "go over the top" 
and secure its honor flag. 

The call to the school to live up to its duty in the purchase 
of bonds was well sounded in an editorial of the school paper in 
April 1918. The article shows the school spirit and is well worth 
quoting at this point. 

'To-day hundreds of thousands, I might say millions, of 

Americans are asking themselves the question, "What can I do ?" 

They realize that the time has passed to do merely their "bit" — 

now they must do their best. Men beyond military age, and men 

who have responsibilities at home, women all over the country and 

even the children are asking the same question. "What can I do ?" 

The soldier is unable to cope unarmed with the fury of the Hun, 

as he will be if the people of the United States do not back him in 

this great drive of the Third Liberty Loan. There is need for 

every dollar that can be spared. The money is being loaned, not 

given ; and putting aside for a moment the privilege of buying a 

bond, the Liberty Bond is the best investment in the world, for 

the United States is behind it, with its promise to pay. This should 

be a minor consideration, however. Whenever we stop to think 

of the millions of men and boys who are willing and glad to give 

their lives that autocracy may be crushed, we have a vague feeling 

that we ought to do something. Let us obey that impulse — buy 

that bond now ! The self-denial we make to enable us to buy a 

bond is trifling, compared to the one supreme sacrifice which the 

enlisted men are making. Lend a hand to the men "over there," 

help them "over the top," across the Rhine, and on into Berlin. 

Have a share in arming and feeding them. While the boys are 

out there in No Man's Land, we must do our part here at home 



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by over-subscribing our quota. Thus we will show Germany that 
America is in the field to win, to win soon, and to establish democ- 
racy firmly, once for all. The time to act is now." 

In this spirit we went to work with the determination to do 
all in our power along this line. We took part in the civic parades 
for the Liberty Loans, we canvassed for bonds and stamps and 
above all we bought bonds and stamps. 

The total subscribed for government uses by the high school 
was almost forty thousand dollars ($39,837.75). This was a per 
capita subscription of about sixty-five dollars. It does not include 
the amounts contributed outright to such organizations as the Red 
Cross, Y. M. C. A., Salvation Army, etc. These amounts would 
probably total from two to three thousand dollars additional. Of 
this amount of almost forty thousand dollars subscribed to the 
government, most of it was in the form of bonds. The exact 
amount is $33,700. Most of these bonds were purchased outside 
the school walls. 

The remainder ($6,137.75) was secured through the sale of 
Thrift Stamps, the ordinary denomination being twenty-five cents. 

The sale of these stamps was carried on in a very systematic 
way. Clubs were organized in each room by the room teacher. 
Definite amounts weekly were pledged by those students who 
joined and each week on "thrift stamp" day the student purchased 
that amount of stamps from the teacher. The teacher in turn 
passed on the money to the principal who purchased the total 
amount of stamps weekly for the school, through the superintend- 
ent's office. 

In order to promote rivalry between the rooms graphic rec- 
ords were made by the art department and posted each week. 

The system worked well, and it accomplished a two fold pur- 
pose. Not only was the government aided by the loans, but the 
students also were taught important lessons in economy and thrift. 



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CHAPTER III 

THE WORK OF THE FACULTY 

It may justly be said of the teachers and school officials thru- 
out this country that while most of them were not called to the 
field of battle, yet they did comprise an important element in that 
large reserve army on this side which backed up and secured the 
men on the front. 

In order to reach the mass of the people the government 
worked through the press, the school and the church. And so it 
came about that those at the head of the schools were called upon 
for service in many outside organizations and also to give their 
time and thought to the marshalling of the large army of school 
children under their charge. 

Outside the school room, the ladies went into such activities 
as the Red Cross, First Aid, and the Canteen Service; the men 
canvassed for the various loans and war drives. 

Within the school room all were engaged in organizing and 
carrying out such projects as the loans, war drives, the Red Cross, 
Patriotic League, etc. 

In the line of money contributions the faculty subscribed 
for all purposes over ten thousand dollars. Of this amount about 
nine thousand ($8,650) was for Liberty Bonds; nearly eight 
hundred dollars ($771) was for War Saving Stamps and the 
remainder was for other causes. 

Three of our men teachers not included in the first draft, 
offered themselves for active service, two others saw active ser- 
vice, one in this country and the other in France. A record of 
their work is given below. 

Summary of the Service of E. S. Carleton : 

July 9, '18, reported at Ft. Slocum, N. Y. 

July 12, '18, reported at Ft. Delaware, Del. 

Sept. 4, '18, made Corporal 3rd Co. Del. 

Sept. 18, '19, sent to Coast Artillery School, Ft. Monroe. 

Nov. 8, '19, passed final for grade of Sergeant-Major. 

Dec. 12, '19, sent to Camp Devens and discharged. 



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Summary of the service of James M. Coleman : 

Sept. 20, '17, entered service in Co. B, 311 Infantry, Camp 
Dix, N. J. 

Dec. 30, '17, transferred to Co. F. 1st N. H. Infantry, Camp 
Green, N. C. 

Jan. 28, '18, Co. 7, 1st Army Head Quarters Reg. 

March 19, '18, Sailed for France. 

March 19, '18, Landed at Bordeaux. Guard duty. 

Aug. 24, '19, Criminal Investigation Work. 

July 5, '19, Sailed from Bordeaux. 

July 24, '19, Discharged Camp Dix, N. J. 

The following letters written by Mr. Coleman will be of 
interest in connection with the data given above. The first, written 
to the Beacon, was printed in the edition of February 19 18, and 
is as follows : 

Editor Beacon : I need not say how much I miss my school 
work and the many pleasant associations with faculty and stu- 
dents. I think of you all every day and look forward to the time 
when I can resume my work among you. The life of a soldier 
is a very strenuous one. My military training in college has 
helped me a lot, and I am very thankful that I had this advantage 
to start with. We are on the go at Camp Dix from early morn 
until bedtime. We start our work at 5.45 A. M., and in these cold 
winter days it is very trying to the flesh to get out of bed and 
commence work. But a good soldier never complains, indeed the 
first requisite is prompt and cheerful obedience. This is no place 
for grouches if you expect to get along. I like Uncle Sam very 
much and he is certainly taking good care of us. We are provided 
with warm clothing, substantially made, while the mess is first 
class. I find that my appetite improves each day, and the "eats" 
are well cooked and served in abundance. Of course we are not 
provided with finger bowls, and cut glass is conspicuous by its 
absence, but these trifles are not missed. 

We have been doing considerable target practice of late. 
We are marched five miles to the rifle ranges, practice all morning, 
and then back to camp, and believe me, after a ten-mile hike the 
dinner call is a mighty welcome sound. I have my warrant as 
"Corporal," which is a start on the upward grade. If I come back 



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a Major General I will have my commission framed and hung in 
the high school auditorium. Athletics are quite prominent in the 
camp life. When we are off duty we have inter-company and 
inter-regimental games, in which every one takes an active in- 
terest. I followed very closely the work of the high school boys 
on the football field, and now my vision is turned toward your 
basketball contests. I sincerely trust that everybody will turn in 
and make the coming year a big one for Asbury. And now in 
conclusion let me give three lusty cheers for Asbury Park High 
School, its faculty and fine student body. Sincerely your friend, 

James M. Coleman. 
Camp Dix, December 29, 1917. 

The second of these letters, quoted, was written to his parents 
from Bordeaux, France, on Christmas Eve, 19 18. It is a good 
description of a doughboy's Christmas and makes interesting 
reading. He says : 

"You must be thinking to-night that I am facing a pretty glum 
Christmas, and so I was all day. But to-night it is different, and 
when I go to bed, it will have been the happiest Christmas Eve I 
have ever enjoyed. The thing that did it, apparently, was our 
Christmas tree, but I know better that the tree is only a symbol 
of the greater thought behind it : My love for you. 

But I will tell you how we made the tree, and why, and there 
never was a tree like it for conception and beauty too, in our eyes. 
We went out in the woods and cut a little branch off a tree that 
resembled some what our Christmas tree, only it was more thorny, 
and had little yellow flowers on it. On the artillery range we 
found a spent shell, filled it with sand, and stuck the tree in it. 
Then I took a white blanket I have and spread it around the 
bottom of the tree to resemble our time-honored snow, for I 
wouldn't miss any of our traditions. It was pretty dirty snow, 
though, but a little talcum powder sprinkled on it, gave us our 
true white Christmas. 

You will remember the comfort kit you gave me last year. 
Well, I still have some of the absorbent cotton left, so I draped 
some of it around the shell and the bottom of the tree for more 
snow and pulled the rest apart and put it in small bits all over the 
tree. The blue wrapper which was around the cotton, we used 



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to make balls which we tied on the tree. Not having enough 
colored paper, we made white balls and painted them with red 
ink, and they added greatly to the appearance of the tree. 

My room-mate had a book of pictures and we cut them out 
for further trimmings. We then took five large candles and cut 
them into smaller ones, then painted them up with red and blue 
ink. We did not have any candy canes which I used to revel in, 
so we bought some cigarettes, oranges and nuts. The cigarettes 
we impaled upon the thorns all over the tree and put the oranges 
and nuts around the bottom for our ''plates." We supported the 
tree on either side with our bayonets, and at the very top, I 
crowned it with the little silk flag which you wrapped around 
the Bible you gave me when I went away. And there you have 
our tree, a real home-made affair, but the making of it brought 
the happiest time I have had for a long time. 

One thing I forgot and you must have missed it too, in this 
description : that is the absence of tinsel. But we found three 
extra service chevrons, we unwound the gold from them and 
strung it around the tree. I was bound to have a tree, and all 
the time I was fixing it, I thought I was really home with you 
enjoying the happiness and laughter that always accompanied 
the trimming of our house tree. So that in thought to-night, I 
am still your small boy, who thoroughly believes in Santa Claus." 

"Chippy" also writes that he is on the regimental football 
team and thus far, the team had won every game, so that the rest 
of the teams are after their scalps. In the last game played, 
"Chippy" scored the goal for his team, and the captain of his 
company was so exalted over it, that he made him a substantial 
present. 

(Reported by Margaret Van Mater, '20) 

THE CANTEEN SERVICE 

Services in one of the local canteens was one of the war 
contributions of one of our lady members of the faculty, Miss 
Alta Anderson. Miss Anderson's home is in Long Branch, N. J., 
and her work was done at that place. The facts below have been 
supplied by her and will help to convey an idea of the kind of 
work done at these places. 



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These local canteens were centers of rest and recreation for 
any U. S. soldier or sailor during the hours he was off duty. 
The one here described was located in the Army and Navy Club 
rooms on the corner of Ocean Avenue and Broadway. 

This canteen was open for about two years every day from 
5 P. M. to 11 P. M. except Saturdays and Sundays when it was 
opened at n A. M. 

About two hundred workers were engaged in doing this 
voluntary service for the men. These workers were divided into 
fourteen units, each one consisting of a lieutenant and ten helpers. 
It was the duty of the lieutenant to see that every member of 
the unit was at the canteen on the scheduled time and to supervise 
the work at that time. 

Every member of these units were in canteen dress and cap. 
It was her work to wait upon the soldiers in regard to refresh- 
ments and in general to make the atmosphere of the pleasant and 
wholesome. 

A menu of this canteen, including the prices charged, is given 
below : 

Ham and Eggs (2 pieces of bread served with them) .25 

Soup .10 

Coffee 05 

Tea 05 

Cocoa 05 

Cake .05 

Pie 05 

Ice Cream 10 

Ice Cream Soda 10 

Plain Soda 05 

Grape Juice 05 

Lemonade 05 

Hot Roast Beef Sandwiches 15 

Cold Egg Sandwiches 05 

Fried Egg Sandwiches 10 

Fried Ham Sandwiches 10 

Cold Ham Sandwiches 05 

Hot Roast Beef with 2 pieces of Bread 15 

Potatoes 05 

2 Fried Eggs with 2 pieces of Bread 15 

Pie a la mode 10 and .15 



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In addition to the above stamps, cigars, cigarettes, candy and 
chewing gum were provided at minimum prices. 

The social needs of the men, also were cared for. At all 
times they had at their disposal pool, cards, magazines, books, 
piano, victrola and writing materials free of charge. Dances were 
given every Wednesday and Saturday evenings at which the 
canteen workers acted as patrons. 

During the summer a professional program was given every 
Wednesday evening followed by dancing, with ice cream and 
cake served to all the boys (350 or 400 of them) free. The boys 
had a chance of hearing the best from the theatrical circles. 

The number in attendance was from two to three hundred 
daily. 

Beginning with May 15, 1919, the Army and Navy Club was 
used for convalescent soldiers, sent there from different hospitals. 
These men no longer needed medical service, simply rest and 
recreation. The second floor of the club was comfortably fitted 
up with cots. Three meals were served to these men, every day, 
free of charge. Any food between meals cost them the regular 
canteen price. This necessitated longer hours for canteen work- 
ers, from 8 A. M. until 11 P. M. every day in the week. 



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CHAPTER IV 

THE RED CROSS WORK 

Our work for the American Red Cross began in the fall of 
1 91 8. At that time we learned that a campaign was being started 
by President MacCracken of Vassar College to enroll all the 
schools throughout the United States in the Junior Red Cross. 
In order to secure such enrollment, it was necessary for any 
school to raise a sum equivalent to the average of twenty-five cents 
for each student. Our student enrollment was then about six 
hundred, and our requirement was accordingly one hundred and 
twenty-five dollars. 

In order to introduce the work, we asked Miss Alice Cam- 
bell, secretary of the Junior Red Cross of the Atlantic Division, 
to speak before the high school. Miss Cambell gave an inspiring 
talk. She spoke of the need for our work and financial aid in 
support of this worthy cause. 

The cause was well supported by the school paper in the fol- 
lowing editorial in the issue of December, 1917. 

"When President Wilson issued his proclamation creating a 
Junior Red Cross, he brought into being one of the most vital 
forces which is helping to win the war. This organization is 
open to everyone of the twenty-two millions school children in the 
United States. In the various departments of the school, much 
may be done to aid the Red Cross ; such as making bandages and 
hospital garments, splints, clothing for the refugee children, and 
even delicacies for the convalescent soldiers. It is the success 
attained in many schools which has decided the Red Cross to 
take this new step. The vocational classes in New York State 
alone in one term made during the last few weeks of the school 
year over forty thousand articles for the Red Cross. Henry P. 
Davison, Chairman of the War Council, American Red Cross, says : 
The American Red Cross welcomes the school children of the 
United States into its ranks. To safeguard the future of the 
world these children are one day to inherit, is America's essential 
purpose in this war. That children should have a part in loyal 
services by ministering to the comforts and welfare of their 
fathers and brothers under arms, and by helping to life the heavy 



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burden of misery from our Allies, is wholly fitting, and in every 
task which these boys and girls find to do under the sign of the 
Red Cross, they are building foundations of their own future 
citizenship." 

The result was an enthusiastic campaign to raise the required 
amount to make us a Red Cross school. A lively competition was 
carried on between the various class rooms of the school, and the 
relative progress of each was represented by graphs, which were 
changed at the end of each week. By Christmas our full quota 
was met, the last twenty dollars having been raised by the sale of 
Christmas cards, made by the drawing classes. 

The amounts collected by the various classes are as follows : 

Freshmen $26.70 

Sophomores 32.80 

Juniors 12.15 

Seniors 12.25 

Other sources 21.25 

Total $105.15 

Since then, we have been using this money to buy materials 
to be used to make supplies needed by the Red Cross. 

With the exception of some printing and typewriting, this 
part of the work has been carried on by girls, who volunteered 
to work under the direction of certain members of the faculty. It 
was the custom every Friday afternoon for these girls to meet 
in the sewing room of the Ingalls Building to make surgical dress- 
ings and muslin bandages. The work was carried on also in the 
regular sewing class of the school where clothes were made for 
soldiers and for needy refugees, such as those of Belgium and 
northern France. Between February and June of 19 18, the girls 
in this department finished one hundred and sixty-seven hospital 
garments, and two hundred and three articles for refugee children. 

During the year Bradley School and Emery Street Annex of 
the Bond Street School made garments for the Red Cross in their 
sewing classes, and the boys made boxes for the shipment of goods 
in connection with their manual training. 

After the signing of the armistice in November, 19 18, the 
need for this work decreased and interest dropped but some work 
was continued, principally in the sewing classes. 



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(From the official report, June 1918, of Martha E. Parkhill, 
chairman of the School Committee Asbury Park Branch of 
American Red Cross.) 



The following speeches were given by students in a school 
contest which was held to stimulate interest in the Red Cross 
work. 

THE HEALING HAND 

Just yesterday, our sons, fathers, and brothers were called 
to fight for liberty and justice. Today, due to their heroic bravery 
and courage, the vastest, most cruel war in history is over. 

The war is over, yes, but the greater task of reconstruction 
is begun. And upon us, who have been sheltered from the dead- 
liest agony of war, falls the paramount privilege and duty of 
feeding and clothing our less fortunate allies. It is for us to give 
financial aid to the "Greatest Mother in the World," who only 
can bind up the wounds of bleeding France and Belgium, — the 
American Red Cross. They are her garments which protect the 
ragged orphans of those stricken lands from wind and storm. It 
is she who brings to their sick and wounded the comforts and 
medical care, without which they must perish. It is she who 
feeds the emaciated little ones, the poor, famished mothers and 
starving daughters of our brother nations. She has been with 
them through that fiend's inferno. She still is with them in their 
hour of trial, smoothing their all too sharp and jagged pathway 
with her tender hands and administering lovingly to every need. 

The war is over, yes, but most of our laddies are still "over 
there." And just as she befriends her French and Belgian chil- 
dren, the American Red Cross is befriending and will befriend 
your boy. What would he do in camp, hospital or city, without 
the ever present "one who cares ?" She provides the many amuse- 
ment places, rest houses and canteens, which help our boys to 
while away the tedious hours. And in the hospitals, how often 
does her skill coax into flame the precious, wavering spark of 
life, and cheer our loved ones thru their long, hard convales- 
ence ! So, now, knowing how much this willing comrade means 
to our defenders, can we rob them of her? Shall we make them 
believe that their well being is nothing to us, when they have 



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served and sacrificed so long? NEVER ! We must not tear from 
this "Greatest Mother," who only can dispense the little luxuries 
and comforts, they crave. But without our help her work will 
cease. She looks to us for the resources with which to carry 
on her noble mission. We cannot fail her now. Our Allies and 
soldiers have given all for us. What have we done, what can 
we do, to show that we at least are grateful? Mere words will 
not convince them of our fervor. Then let us act ! Let us each 
and all, with one accord, answer the "Red Cross Christmas Roll 
Call!" 

Naomi Eleanore Warne, '20. 



"WHY WE SHOULD JOIN THE RED CROSS" 

The Red Cross is the greatest mother in the world ; it is the 
mission of mercy, kindness and charity. It devotes itself to the 
extension of our ideals, and the spirit of humanity ; and as Presi- 
dent Wilson said, "Nowhere can its cause be extended to better 
advantage than in our schools." 

Into the lands where the tooth of war has bitten to the bone, 
healing and courage have been carried ; where hitherto, America 
had been only the unmeaning name of something very far away. 
The simple name of the Red Cross, has become a synonym of 
friendship and the surety of relief. 

There is still, today the greatest army in France that has 
ever fought under the American flag. It is not only the greatest 
in numbers but in organization and war making powers. Upon 
that army hung the destiny of the United States, the future of 
every child in this country, of that very liberty, that liberty that 
you so highly prize. Although that army has been successful and 
peace has come so quickly, there must be no slowing down. Our 
men and our allies still require hospital supplies, canteens and 
sympathetic aid. The Christmas Roll Call, therefore, is not a 
call merely for temporary support, but for necessary relief work 
in the future. 

Besides it is the Christmas season. If for a moment we had 
forgotten our loving debt, the memory of it, would now be re- 
vived with double force. Let us remember that it is Christmas 
over there where hearts beat bold at the thought of home, where 



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the bravest souls would shrivel but for the certainty that the 
home lines hold firm. 

Is there a single one among the millions of patriotic Ameri- 
cans who needs urging to help and encourage our men over there ? 
We all know their courage and their sufferings and all of us have 
learned long ago that they have faced death and worse to let us 
live. It seems unthinkable that anyone in all the land need be 
summoned for full duty at this time. 

One phase of the work that has been carried on by the Red 
Cross "over there," has been beautifully worked out in the fol- 
lowing poem by Miss Boiling. 

"Over the ocean, under the sky, 
Here on the battle-field I lie 
I look to the sky but it all shows red, 
Red as the blood my breast has bled ; 
I look again, I see a gleam of light 
Of something as clean as the snow, and as white. 
It touches me on my breast and head, 
I think it an angel, with wings outspread, 
To bear me to heaven when I am dead, 
I kiss the cross, — and the cross is red." 

The Red Cross is not only a very important factor in the 
relief work "over there," but it is also of tremendous value to 
the communal life in this country. Take, for instance, the work 
of the Red Cross during the recent epidemic ; when whole families 
were stricken from the oldest to the youngest and from the strong- 
est to the weakest, the Red Cross band went boldly to the front, 
offered its service and relieved the poor sufferers. 

Let us make it unanimous; take the small amount of one 
dollar from your pocket and join the Red Cross. Thus you will 
send forth to the whole human family Christmas greetings for 
which they wait and for which they stand in greatest need. 

Clinton Henry, '19. 



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CHAPTER V 



GIRLS' WORK ON THE FARMS 

During the summers of 1917 and 1918 many war gardens 
were kept by students of our city schools. The success attending 
their efforts was shown up in the display held at the end of the 
seasons. 

Two of the high school girls, Isabelle Goorley and Dorothy 
Brown, answered the call of the Woman's Land Army of America 
of New York City to engage in farm work at St. James, Long 
Island. 

With their brothers in the field of war they experienced 
many inconveniences coincident with their work. Clad in overalls, 
and wearing big straw hats, they worked from eight in the morn- 
ing to five in the evening for fifty cents a day. And the meals 
had nothing on "Corn Willy" or "Army Slum." At night sixteen 
of the total twenty-eight "bunked" in a large billiard room on 
"ticks" filled with straw. 

Their work was of various kinds and included such things 
as plowing, planting, weeding, hoeing, cutting skunk cabbage, 
picking fruit, pitching hay, stacking and thrashing wheat, currying 
horses and milking the cows. 

In the article below taken from the Beacon of December 
1 918, a days work is described by Isabelle Goorley in her own 
inimitable style. 



THE FARMERETTES 



Bang ! Bang ! Bang ! Two pans knocked together say, "You've 
got to get up, you've got to get up, you've got to get up to-day." 

This was what the farmerettes heard every morning at half 
past five. Up we all jumped and were soon eating our breakfast. 
The girls who finished first ran out and started to crank the Ford. 
We always had to work with it half an hour before it was really 
wanted, for it took that long to start it. At first we tried turning 
it. After we had cranked for twenty minutes, it did not show 
any life at all. We then started pushing it out. If it didn't go 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 21 

then, we gave it a hot shower-bath and started cranking again! 
What was that faint noise we heard? Yes, it had really started. 

This was the signal for every one to jump in. Some of us 
sat on the floor, others hung frantically on the running board, 
or any other available place. Then we were off for a day's work. 
We rode that way for ten or twelve miles, or until we reached the 
place where we were to work that day. 

If you were to ask a farmerette what grows the quickest and 
best, you would hear her say, "Weeds ! Weeds ! Weeds !" We 
pulled and hoed weeds all day long, and the next day did the same 
thing over again. If crops would only grow as fast as weeds, 
we would have enough to feed all the armies in the world. 

One day it was cloudy and the hay had to be put into the 
barn. ''Kit," the horse, was old and contrary, and even rain would 
not make her work any harder than she had to. The hayraker 
was only made for one, but another girl and I got in, and made 
that horse feel as if her last day had come. But, nevertheless, 
we brought the hay and the horse in before it rained. 

The dampest job of a farmerette was cutting skunk cabbage 
in the swamps. We would cut awhile, swim awhile, and then 
cut some more. 

Another day was spent in cutting sprouts off the tree stumps, 
but you would think by the number of stings we had, that we 
had been hunting yellow jackets instead. 

At five o'clock, if the Ford was in good working order, we 
started for home. We hardly waited for the car to stop before 
we were at the dinner table. As soon as we finished dinner, we 
were off for a swim. At nine thirty we were all ready for bed, 
and the prayer that each farmerette sent up was for rain. But 
as it rained only two and a half days in three months, our prayers 
seemed seldom answered. 

Isabelle Goorley, '19. 



22 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 



CHAPTER VI 

THE GIRLS' PATRIOTIC LEAGUE 

On Friday, February i, 191 8, Mrs. Lewis, speaker and or- 
ganizer of the Girls' Patriotic League of New Jersey, addressed 
the girls of the high school urging them to organize a Girls' Pa- 
triotic League in this school. Shortly afterward, as a result of 
Mrs. Lewis' effective and stirring talk, such a league was formtd 
with Miss Galvin, one of our teachers, as commandant. 

The purpose of the league is stated in the pledge which is as 
follows : "I pledge myself to uphold the honor of my country, 
my community, myself, and other girls ; to do personal service, 
whenever possible to my country, my community, and other girls." 

In order to become a member it was necessary for a student 
to sign a card bearing the above pledge and pay the small sum 
of five cents to the organization. Each member was given a but- 
ton, containing in a white field encircled by the American emblem, 
the blue letters "G. P. L." About one hundred girls joined the 
league. 

The preliminary meetings were held in Room 40 of the high 
school. Here Miss Galvin outlined the work and made an appeal 
to the interests of the girls in furthering it. 

Active work was then begun in connection with Red Cross 
League of the high school and at this time consisted chiefly in 
making bandages. Later the girls were given a room of their own 
in the Press Building where they devoted two afternoons a week 
to making dresses, shawls, stockings and other articles of clothing 
for the people of devastated France. 

They gave active service, also, during the Liberty Loan, 
Thrift Stamp and Red Cross drives. At these times they served 
on the streets or conducted booths in public places in order to 
help further these worthy objects. 

The work of the league continued until the close of the war 
and the organization was then dissolved. 

(Reported by Naomie Warne, '20.) 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 23 

CHAPTER VII 

WAR SPEECHES BEFORE THE SCHOOL 

Some light will be thrown upon our war activities in the 
school by the sort of speeches delivered before the student body 
during the war. In addition to our own four minute contests by 
the students on the Red Cross and War Saving Stamps, there were 
many speeches delivered by special speakers sent for this purpose. 
In the early days these speeches touched on such subjects as the 
Junior Red Cross, the Girls Patriotic League, War Saving Stamps, 
Liberty Bonds and the like. 

One of the best examples of this type of speech was that 
delivered by Captain Simmons, a man who was sent by the United 
States government to investigate the true state of affairs "over 
there." This speaker made two addresses in Asbury Park, the 
first in the Armory in 19 18, and the second in the high school in 
the spring of 191 9. 

Captain Simmons came from New England and was formerly 
an artic explorer. Big in mind and body and commanding the 
most elegant and forceful English, his description of scenes per- 
petrated by the Huns were at times harrowing and dramatic. 
He had been an eye witness of much of what he described. His 
business was to tour the country to try to wake the people up to 
their duty. One of his sentences was : "Oh, America ! of these 
three words — sacrifice, sorrow and suffering you have not yet 
learned the first letter." In closing he laid each person's duty upon 
his own conscience telling them that when the war was finally won 
by the Allies each one would have to face his conscience in the 
quiet of his own closet and there before God answer this question : 
"In this supreme battle for the world's freedom, did I do my 
duty?" 

Toward the close of the war most of the speeches were by 
men returned from service abroad and were of a more enter- 
taining character. 

The writer remembers one good natured army chaplain who 
was returned to the States because of poor health. He was espec- 
ially entertaining and readily captured the students by his unique 
rendition of some of the army songs. Of these the most famous 



24 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

one was entitled "Pull your Shades down Mary Anne." Not only 
the words but the air was catchy and the students took to it with 
considerable gusto. The words are as follows : 

"Pull your shades down Mary Anne, 
Pull your shades down Mary Anne, 
For last night in the pale moonlight, 
I saw you, I saw you. 
You were combing your auburn hair, 
Before you hung it upon the chair, 
If you want to keep your secrets 
From your future man 
Keep your shades down Mary Anne." 

Two more examples of these speeches are given below. They 
are short accounts clipped verbatim from the Beacon. 

The first account is that of Billy Grant. It is clipped from 
the Christmas edition of 1918, and is as follows : 

"Billy" Grant, of the Gordon Highlanders, spoke on Tues- 
day, November 12. He told how his regiment had been in the 
thickest of the fight, and while in battle around Ypres, he had re- 
ceived a wound in the thigh. After his speech, yells were given 
by the school for Grant, the Yanks, and the Allies." 

The second is that of Dr. Clifford and is taken from the 
edition of June 1919. 

"When, on Monday, May 19, Mr. Huff introduced Dr. Clif- 
ford, a returned overseas Y. M. C. A. man, as the speaker, we 
knew that we were to hear a fine address. 

Dr. Clifford, who was a Baptist minister down in Arizona, 
previous to his going over, completely fulfilled our expectations. 
Avoiding almost altogether, mention of how he won the Croix de 
Guerre, and the Lorraine Cross, for extraordinary heroism, Dr. 
Clifford dealt mostly with the characteristics and qualities of the 
Marines, a subject which he presented in both a forceful and 
humorous manner." 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 2$ 

CHAPTER VIII 

THE EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON THE CURRICULUM 

The war affected considerable changes in the high school 
curriculum. Some of these changes were merely accelerated by 
the war, but others were clearly due to it alone. In general the 
tendency seemed to be to emphasize the more practical subjects 
and those which tended to develop good citizens. 

Accordingly there was a falling off in work intended pri- 
marily for mental discipline such as the study of Latin. In 
this department there was a noticeable decline during the two 
years of the war. This was also true in a less degree of some 
branches of mathematics. 

In the Department of History and Government some new 
branches appeared and either during the war or shortly afterward 
became permanent fixtures. In the Freshman year Community 
Civics was required of all students, while in the Senior year work 
in Social Problems and Economics became compulsory. 

A course in physical drill was also introduced and required 
of all the students during the entire four years in the high school. 
The minimum requirement was one hundred and fifty minutes 
per week. This work included a daily physical drill and one 
additional period devoted to such subjects as Community Civics, 
Military Tactics, First Aid and Problems of American Democracy. 

The changes in the Department of Modern Languages were 
remarkable and due directly to the war. Here the" pendulum 
swung from the study of German to that of French and Spanish. 
But the change was brought about gradually so as not to incon- 
venience those students who had already started German and 
were planning to offer it for college. 

The extent of this change appears clearly thru a com- 
parison of the number of students pursuing these languages in 
the years of 1917 and 1920. In the school year of 1917-1918 
there were in all two hundred and thirty-three students taking 
work in German. In the next year the number fell to seventy- 
six and by the second half of the third year was reduced to six. 
On the other hand in 19 19- 1920, there were seventy pupils study- 
ing Spanish and one hundred and seventy-four taking French. 



26 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 



CHAPTER IX 

ALUMNI WHO DIED IN THE SERVICE 

Four of our alumni died in the service. They are Esther 
Slocum, class of 1905 ; Lieutenant G. Franklin Coble, class of 
1912; Gustav Goetz, class of 1916; and Norman Bloodgood, 
class of 1917. 

These have paid the supreme price. Nothing we can say 
can do justice to their deeds nor assuage the grief of their friends. 
And yet we cannot pass by without paying our mite of tribute 
to those of our number who without hesitation answered the 
call "to go West." 

Early in our school days we learned to con the line " 'Tis 
sweet to die for one's country." Four of our number proved the 
truth of those words. But they did more than that, and so they 
have left us a greater spiritual heritage. For they all died in 
noble and heroic action voluntarily stepping to the post of ex- 
treme danger where soon they were to lay so costly a sacrifice on 
the altar of the world's freedom. This volunteer element stands 
out in the records of each one of them. 

In the case of Miss Slocum, it was the extra work she vol- 
untarily assumed on Sundays and outside of regular office hours 
which broke her health. This additional service was performed 
for worn out men returning from the front. Thinking of them 
and less of herself she records in her diary "It makes the pettiness 
of our grumblings even pettier, makes life worth while." 

Again and again she was advised by the Medical Department 
to give up her work and return to the States for the sake of her 
health. The record below gives her answer. Less than two 
weeks before her death we find her writing the Medical Depart- 
ment begging to be allowed to work a few months longer "just 
to see if I've forgotten how." 

The same volunteer spirit stands out in the records of Lieu- 
tenant Coble and here the part was nobly played amidst the 
din of battle and screaming shells. Excerpts from his record tell 
us that while he was attending an advanced school for officers 
his division moved up to start- the big drive near Verdun. Volun- 
tarily he rejoined his unit just about a half hour before the bat- 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 2*] 

talion engaged in the heaviest fighting of the campaign, and a 
little below we read this line: "It was at this time Lieutenant 
Coble was fatally wounded by a high explosive shell." And still 
further on we read from his commanding officer: "It was the 
finest example of manliness and control I've ever seen and I've 
prayed many times that I might do as well should the opportunity 
occur," and so as he travelled West he wore the red badge of 
courage and manly self control. 

And it was so with Gustav Goetz. His own pal who was 
with him at the time of his death in the Argonne-Meuse drive 
writes that before the battle they both asked to be removed from 
the stretchers for more active service on the front. "Gus was 
given a job as rifle grenadier and myself as machine gunner" and 
"it was on the morning of November I about 10:30 that Gus 
got hit with a piece of shell on the side of the head from which 
he died a few days later." 

And we are proud, too, of the record of Norman Bloodgood 
for it reads this way: "Volunteers were called for — Bloodgood 
and another man named Walton volunteered. They lashed them- 
selves to the forecastle deck — the heavy strain snapped the line — 
it was impossible owing to the tempestuous seas to assist them, 
and they were never seen again." And below the Executive officer 
of the ship writing to Norman's father states : "I desire to express 
to you my sentiments regarding one of the noblest boys who ever 
died for this country of ours." And again: "Norman died as 
much a hero as the most famous soldier in France." 



GUSTAV H. GOETZ '16 



Gustav Goetz was born in New York City, August 17, 1897. 
At that place he received most of his education and later went 
to Asbury Park where he was graduated from the high school in 
June 1916. After his graduation he returned to New York en- 
gaging in clerical work and later entering the Alexander Hamilton 
Institute to get a training for business. He had not yet completed 
this course at the time of his enlistment. 

On August 19, 1918, Goetz enlisted in the Lafayette Esquad- 
rille at New York City. Five days later he sailed for France and 
landed at Bordeaux. 



28 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Shortly after landing in France he enlisted in the U. S. 
Marine Corps at Paris. Thence he was sent to a training camp 
at Chattillion sur Cher where he remained about ten days and 
received full equipment for the front. 

Leaving Chattillion October 18, he was transferred to the 
83 Leg. 6th. Reg. 2nd Marines and set out immediately for the 
second drive on Rheims. At this time he acted as a stretcher 
bearer. 

Thence his company hiked back to Sommerance to participate 
in the Argonne-Meuse drive about November 1. 

Before this drive Goetz asked to be removed from the stretch- 
ers and he was accordingly made a rifle grenadier. 

In this battle on November 2, he was struck by a piece of 
shell on the side of the head. He died four days later and was 
hurried nearby at Bayonsville. 

One of his Camp pals, Emil Anderson of Brooklyn, N. Y., 
was with him at the time he was fatally wounded. In a letter of 
February 7, 1920, Mr. Anderson says: "He was, up to the time 
he received his wound, in the best of health and evidently enjoy- 
ing himself shooting rifle grenades at the Boche only a short 
distance away. I know that he accounted for a few at any rate 
before he got his." 

"He was one of the finest fellows I ever met and was well 
thought of by all. Personally I liked him very much and he 
was what was considered my Buddie, as I was always with him." 



ESTHER SLOCUM '05 

Esther Slocum was graduated from our own high school in 
1905 and from the Star of Sea Academy in 1906. After her 
graduation she was first employed by the Ricker and Ricker Law 
Firm and later by the Fidelity Trust Company, both of Newark, 
N. J. She was in the employment of the latter when she en- 
listed for secretarial work in the Y. M. C. A. of the A. E. F. in 
France. 

During the first six months beginning November 1917, Miss 
Slocum's work was performed in the main building of the Ameri- 
can branch of the Y. M. C. A. in Paris. She lived at the Hotel 
Petrograd where she had the advantage of meeting many other 
prominent American workers and writers 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 29 

In addition to her secretarial work in the Y. M. C. A., Miss 
Slocum spent her spare time and Sundays working in the can- 
teens, where they served the men as they came in from the front, 
cold, hungry, dirty, and tired. They would furnish them with 
food, amusements, and beds. Referring to this phase of the work 
in her diary she remarks, "It makes the pettiness of our own 
grumblings even pettier. Makes work here seem more worth 
while." 

During this period in Paris she speaks at times of the air 
raids made by the Germans. One time when she was walking 
thru the streets of Paris the air raid alarm was given and she 
had to run down two flights of stairs into an underground cham- 
ber for safety. She also makes reference to the smoke of the 
"big guns and to the sight of the people leaving the city as a means 
of greater security. 

In May of 1918 Miss Slocum was transferred to the French 
branch of the service and was located at the Foyer du Soldat. 
Here also she continued her extra work at the canteen when her 
regular office hours were over. 

In November of this same year she went to Strassburg, Alsace. 
At this time she acted as a private secretary to G. H. Berry who 
went to establish the Y. M. C. A. headquarters in the wake of 
the French army. About Christmas she returned to Paris in 
bad health due to over-work, poor food and exposure. 

After her return from Strassburg, she gave up her regular 
office work and devoted all her time to the work of the canteen 
hoping in the meantime to recover her health. In the middle of 
February, however, being taken seriously ill, she was operated on 
for an abdominal tumor. The operation was successful and upon 
her recovery she was sent to the Y. M. C. A. Convalescent Apart- 
ments in Paris. Here she remained until the early part of April 
when she reported to the Medical Department of the Y. M. C. A. 

At this time she was advised by the Medical Department to 
return to the United States on account of her health, but upon her 
request was allowed to remain in France and was sent to Menton, 
on the Mediterranean Sea. Here she was to rest and recover 
more strength preparatory to a return to this country. 

Miss Slocum's heroic desire for service for her country is 
revealed in the following letter written from Menton less than 
two weeks before her death. 



30 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Hotel Regina, Menton, 

April 25, 1919. 
My Dear Dr. Binet : 

Have I your permission to stay here a week or so longer? 
The army doctor approves. He says yes to anything, which 
troubles my conscience. But the sun is out nice and hot to-day 
and I hate to leave it all. Will be very obedient when I come 
back and will go home if you so advise, but hope you'll let me 
work until July, just to see if I've forgotten how. 

Respectfully, 
(signed) Esther Slocum. 

In reply to this letter, the Medical Department granted her 
request for a longer stay at Menton and again advised her to 
make up her mind to return home. 

Her death followed shortly afterward. Being taken seriously 
ill April 29, she was removed to the Red Cross hospital the next 
day. She was operated on for intestinal stoppage and died one 
day later, May 3, 1919. 

The funeral took place on the following Monday at 2 130 at 
a Scotch Presbyterian Church. It was a full military funeral 
with a band of forty pieces, a military escort and a firing squad. 
Twenty-six Y. M. C. A. Secretaries, a number of Red Cross 
nurses, and many soldiers marched in the procession and paid 
their respects. Quantities of flowers were furnished by the Y. M. 
C. A. ladies. 

She was laid to rest at Nice, France, in the Calicade Ceme- 
tery side by side with many other American heroes and heroines. 
Her mother has received many letters of sympathy for her daugh- 
ter's noble work of love and sacrifice. 

(Reported by Minerva Rogers, '20.) 

Letter of the chaplain regarding the last illness and death 
of Miss Slocum : 

May 5, 1919. 
My Dear Mrs. Slocum : 

I am writing you in regard to your daughter's death which 
occurred in our Hospital in Menton Saturday A. M., May 3. 
She was operated for intestinal trouble and lived a day after 
the operation. She seemed very much run down and did not 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 31 

have the strength to survive. The operation was absolutely neces- 
sary since a gangrene condition was developing. I saw her the 
evening before she was operated on but she was too sick to talk 
much. She was rational and asked me to get her mail and report 
her condition to Madam Ly Buysseur who was her companion at 
the Regina Hotel. We had a memorial service in honor of your 
daughter's sacrifice and heroism which she so generously demon- 
strated in the great cause. You can well be proud of the service 
she has rendered. Our hearts go out to you in your sadness and 
we pray you may be given strength and faith to feel that God 
knows best and always does the best for us. The body will be 
buried in the cemetery at Nice May 5. 

Yours most sincerely, 

Chaplain S. A. Guffish, 

Menton Leave Area, 
127 Frazer St., 
Findlay, Ohio. 



LIEUTENANT G. FRANKLIN COBLE, '12 

Lieutenant G. Franklin Coble, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. 
Frank Coble, 1200 Fifth Avenue, Asbury Park, N. J., was born 
at Asbury Park, N. J., July 21, 1894. 

He was graduated from the Asbury Park High School in 
19 1 2 and from New York University in 191 5. From the latter 
school he received the degree of Batchelor of Commercial Science, 
and while in attendance there became a member of the Alpha 
Gamma Psi fraternity. 

Being a lover of out door life he spent much of his leisure 
time in fishing and hunting, in the region surrounding his home 
town. 

He was, likewise, very much interested in athletics, holding 
several medals in football and canoe racing. He was corps leader 
in the gymnasium of the Y. M. C. A. on 23rd St., New York City, 
where he made his home while in that place. 

He held an executive position with Allyn & Bacon, pub- 
lishers of educational literature previous to enlisting in the service 
of his country, and had the promise of a bright business career 
for which he seemed especially fitted. 



$2 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

During the summer of 191 6 he took advantage of the military 
training at Plattsburg, N. Y., and gained the sharp-shooter's 
medal. The following winter he trained in New York with mem- 
bers and post graduates of the New York University, spending 
much of his time out of business hours in further military practice. 

In the spring of 19 17 he applied for the officers training camp 
at Fort Myer, Va., and was accepted, graduating with the first 
class of officers, as a Second Lieutenant of Infantry, being raised 
to First Lieutenant in France on October 28, 191 8, by special 
order. 

In August of this same year he was assigned to Camp Lee. 
He aided in the training of men being sent there for the first 
draft army from western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Maryland. 
During almost the entire time the division was in training at 
Camp Lee, Lieutenant Coble was on detached service at division 
headquarters. In this capacity he came daily in close contact 
with the staff and had many friends amongst the higher officers. 

He left Camp Lee for service abroad May 20. 19 18, as a 
member of Co. B. 318th Infantry 80th Division. The division 
sailed from Hoboken, N. J., on the Leviathan and landed at Brest 
May 30. Being among the early American divisions on the 
other side, the division was attached to the British army and sent 
to Calais to be re-equipped with British ordinance. 

There it was held in the British sector for further training. 
During their stay of something over two months, in that sector, 
there was hardly a night in which they were not subject to air- 
raids and they took over the line several times between Arras 
and Albert. They also participated in the offensive of early 
August and about the 15th of the month received orders to join 
the rapidly growing American army which was soon to make 
history at St. Mihiel and in the Argonne. 

While Lieutenant Coble was attending an advanced school 
for officers at Clemency the division moved up near Verdun to 
start the big drive on September 26. Voluntarily he rejoined his 
unit October 4 just about a half an hour before the battalion en- 
gaged in the heaviest fighting of the campaign. The losses on 
that day were terrible ; all the officers with the exception of Lieu- 
tenant Coble's captain and himself being either killed or wounded. 

Several days later the company was pulled out of the lines 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 33 

for rest and replacements near Bar Le Due, moving up again 
en the 25th and actively participating in the final drive which was 
to end on November 1 1. 

It was at this time that Lieutenant Coble was fatally wounded 
by a high explosive shell. The details together with certain 
fitting comments are well given in a letter from the commanding 
officer to his mother and are as follows : 

Lieutenant Coble was seriously wounded along with 28 
others, on the night of November 2, by high explosive shell fire. 
We had stopped in a little town which had that very evening been 
evacuated by the enemy, to secure a couple of hours rest before 
continuing the attack at daybreak. Only a few shells were 
dropped into the town during the night but this unfortunate one 
happened to get a direct hit on the tile roof of a barn we were 
in with the result mentioned. Most of those hit were officers 
and by a strange turn of fate all of our doctors save one, so the 
work of administering aid to the wounded was most difficult. 

I called over to Lieutenant Coble as soon as the excitement 
had abated, to ask if he were all right, and he answered in the 
affirmative, and not until every case had been attended to did 
we learn that he had been hit. As I wrote you shortly after- 
wards, Mrs. Coble, it was the finest example of manliness and 
control I've ever seen, and I prayed many times that I might do 
as well should the opportunity occur. 

We were shocked and grieved to hear of his death in a 
hospital several days later, not dreaming his wound was anywhere 
near so serious. 

Your son, Mrs. Coble, was a brave and gallant soldier and 
a high type of gentleman, beloved by his men and fellow officers ; 
and tho his grave is far removed from his family and many 
friends, I assure you I will think of him often as a true friend 
and comrade and may I not share with you in your great loss. 

Most cordially and sincerely yours, 

Signed: S. S. Douglas, Jr. 
Formerly commanding 
Company "B" 318th Infantry. 

He was buried with full military honors in the American 
Cemetery at Mesves-sur-Loire, Department of Nevers, France. 



34 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Lieutenant Coble's Captain writes that he can truly say he 
did not have an enemy in the entire outfit and was loved and 
respected by all thru his devotion to duty, a policy of absolute 
fairness in dealing with his men and always setting a good 
example. 

His whole life was lived in accordance with American ideals 
and true patriotism and he served his country with the intense 
purpose of giving the best that was his to give. 

BATTLES 

Artois Sector — St. Mihiel — Meuse Argonne 
first and second phases. 



NORMAN SLOCUM BLOODGOOD, '17 

"Norman Slocum Bloodgood, of the class of 1917, electrician 
in the U. S. Navy, was washed overboard and drowned while 
his boat, the U. S. S. C. 190, was cruising near the mouth of 
Chesapeake Bay, on June 26, 1918. The fleet of which his boat 
was a member was about to embark for overseas at the time of 
the submarine invasion of our southern coast, and Chaser 190, 
among others, was detailed to hunt down the invaders. 

During a heavy storm raging for five days they were buffeted 
about until their fuel had become exhausted and it was a question 
whether they would make port. An English tramp, which hap- 
pened to be nearby, was informed of their plight by wireless, 
and at once answered that she would try to float a line to the 
chaser if it could be made fast. Volunteers were called for to 
try to secure and make fast a six-foot line which was floated 
attached to a barrel from the port quarter. Bloodgood and another 
man by the name of Walton volunteered. They lashed them- 
selves to the forecastle deck, making the line fast through the 
port chock, bringing it around the wireless tripod and capstan. 
Just as this line was secured, the tramp steamer hove ahead and, 
the heavy seas throwing "190" off into the trough of the sea,, 
the heavy strain snapped the line, carrying away the wireless, 
tripod, capstan, life lines, and deck plate, and throwing the two 
men into the water. It was impossible, owing to the tempestuous 
seas, to assist them, and they were never seen again. 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 35 

Norman Bloodgood was born in Jersey City, N. J., June 24, 
1895, an d attended the public schools of that city until he was 
ten years of age. At that time his family moved to Far Hills, 
N. J., where he completed his grammar school education and 
was graduated from the Gladstone High School. Later he moved 
to Asbury Park, graduating from the high school there in June, 
191 7, and enrolling at Rutgers College the following September. 
The call of the country was strong, however and he remained at 
college for only a short time. 

Having a taste for mechanics, he enrolled in the Engineering 
Branch of the U. S. Navy on October 29, 1917, spending a short 
time of training at Bensonhurst, L. I., and later going to Pelham 
Bay. He was admitted shortly afterwards to the Columbia Uni- 
versity Naval Engineering Corps, from which institution he 
graduated with a percentage of ninety-six, and was assigned to 
Submarine Chaser 190, at Alexandria, Virginia." 

Rutgers Alumni Quarterly. 

The following is an extract from a letter received from the 
executive officer of the ship : 

"Navy Department long before this has informed you of the 
death of your son, Norman Bloodgood, at sea, on the afternoon 
of June 26, 1918. I desire to express to you my sentiments re- 
garding one of the noblest boys who ever died for this country 
of ours. 

I have a father and mother living and I realize what torture 
this uncertainty must bring to you. Bloodgood was the finest 
and squarest man on board the ship. He never failed to do his 
share of work and was always willing to do more. It is impos- 
sible for me to tell you the duty that the ship has been performing, 
but I can say that there are but as few ships which have been 
assigned duty of more vital importance to the country and to the 
ultimate winning of this war. Norman died as much a hero as 
the most famous soldier in France." 

The following letter written by Norman shortly before his 
death was never completed. 
"Dear Dad : 

"I received your two letters the other day with the others 
and they sure did read well. You know I must say that it was 



36 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

unexpected and peculiar to be under fire on this side of the pond. 
However, I was glad for one thing because I always wondered 
how I would act in just such an emergency. Strange to say it 
had a peculiarly saddening effect on me, causing me to wonder 
why God willed that men should die that way. 

"We had met the convoy one evening after a day and a half 
of listening. We travelled Saturday evening and at 9 130 Sunday 
morning after all were well awake and on deck we saw one of the 
transports let go a shell and the rest of the transports in line 
changed course and let go in turn. The submarine submerged 
and let go a torpedo. The position of the convoy was a line of 
chasers running parallel on each side of the transports which trav- 
elled so as to complete the letter "H." Torpedo boats were lead- 
ing with a battleship in the line. The torpedo boats fell aft where 
the sub was and let go depth bombs five at a crack. They got old 
Mr. Sub all right for oil and junk went up about 200 feet and 
oil came up about six inches deep. In the meantime a sub stuck 
his nose up between us and the transports and bing, the trans- 
ports let fly and the shells hit just off our port bow. We kept on 
until about 3 P. M. and then met a convoy from New York. 
We turned back for Norfolk and listened on the way. 

"As far as subs bothering us we are as safe as if we were 
in the middle of the state of Pennsylvania for we don't draw 
much water and any torpedo that they let go would go under us. 

"I started this letter in a barber shop at a manicurist's table, 
added a bit at Ocean View and some more on the boat. I don't 
know where I will finish. — Called for watch. Finish later." 

(Reported by Elizabeth M earns, '19.) 

The following letter was written to the editor and printed 
in the Beacon February, 1918. 

Alexandria, Va., Jan. 23, 1918. 

My dear Mr. Malick: 

This note is from below the Mason-Dixon Line, or as some 
say, "The Sunny South." It may be, but from all appearances 
the people have great imagination. There has been a snow storm 
to greet us for the last three mornings. 

The navy is my home for some time to come, and at present 
my home is this historic old town. To tell you the truth, it is the 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 37 

best job I ever had, barring none. A slight review of the past 
few months will give you an idea of the benefits of the U. S. N. 
life. 

I had had some experience at drill work before I joined the 
navy, so when I was called into service at Bensonhurst, Long 
Island and the body of recruits as a whole were asked how much 
training they had had, I filled out my slip and was given the job 
as drill master of a hundred and fifty men. This lasted for a 
month. Pelham Bay Station, N. ¥., was our next stopping place. 
This is the best training camp in the world. It has wooden bar- 
racks, mess halls, and hospitals laid out in company form. The 
buildings are all steam heated, electric lighted, and well ventilated. 
The meals are excellent. Thanksgiving Day we had a meal which 
could not be bought in a restaurant for less than four dollars a 
plate. At Pelham, I went after a job as petty officer in a mess 
hall. Now you may laugh, but I had seventeen men to do the 
work, (steam dish dryers and electric washing machines) and 
rated a special table to eat, myself. The meals then consisted 
of whatever you wanted, from steaks up or down, and plenty of 
sugar. This job entitled me to extra liberty, every other night, 
and forty-eight hours every week-end. New York was handy, 
and so you can imagine I used it to the limit. 

The U. S. S. Granite State, an old ark in the Hudson River, 
was our next hotel. We stayed here while we attended Columbia 
University. 

This was some course. I never studied harder in my life, 
(not even in U. S. History class). The course was a special one 
on gasoline engine combustion theory and on standard motors. 
The object was to finish men for submarine chaser duty. My 
marks were good and I advanced to first assistant engineer. 
From Columbia University, I was shipped to Norfolk on the 
Old Dominion Line, a dandy trip and lots of fun. After reporting 
to the department at Norfolk, I was given subsistance for two 
days until the boat for Washington, D. C, left. This was also a 
fine trip, and having met some friend aboard, the evening passed 
in fine shape. The nice part of the outfit is that one always 
travels first class with the best of everything. Sort of has it on 
the army don't you think? 



38 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

From Washington, I went to Alexandria, a distance of seven 
miles. At the shipyard, I found the S. C. 190 frozen tight and 
not likely to move for a couple of months. 

While here, the government furnishes subsistance, so I board 
in a good old fashioned Southern boarding house. The boarders 
are of the various types, a doctor and his wife, an army captain 
from Boston, and an old Southern lady and her daughter, about 
twenty-seven (no more), and an old maid romantically inclined, 
and above all, the boarding lady who until late years was matron 
at a girls' seminary. She spouts a little Latin now and then, the 
Captain jollies the old maid, and the doctor relates historical 
events, local and national. 

Enclosed are two post cards of Christ Church here. It is 
a picture inside. The old rector with his white hair completes 
the picture when he takes his place in the crow's nest pulpit. The 
spot is marked where Washington used to sit. Robert E. Lee's 
pew is just back in the center. Both have straight backs and are 
stiff. 

The feeling between the North and South is still evident. 
A boy in the steamship company's office told me he admired three 
men, Buffalo Bill, Robert E. Lee, and Admiral Dewey. When I 
asked him, "Why Lee?" he replied, "Sir Grant was a North- 
ener." 

In Washington a free school of navigation is held. Since I 
have two months and nothing to do, I think I will attend. 

My salary is now seventy-six dollars a month and the next 
advancement relieves me of sailor breeches and I will get a real 
uniform. 

Roosevelt is expected in the Senate tomorrow, so me for 
there. 

Very truly yours, 

Norman Bloodgood. 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 39 



CHAPTER X 

INDIVIDUAL RECORDS OF STUDENTS AND ALUMNI 
IN THE SERVICE 

In the following pages we have presented a number of in- 
dividual records of students and alumni in the service. No 
attempt was made to secure such accounts from all who were in 
the service since such an undertaking is clearly beyond the scope 
of this work. The records printed are in the main those of 
students most recently in school, and hence were more available 
than some others. We believe, too, that these records which are 
given will in many respects serve as a type for others we have 
been unable to present. 



William Brown, '20, O. H. M. S. 

As the United States air service was not open to volunteers, 
William Brown ran away and joined the Royal Air Force in 
Canada, August 23, 1918. 

During his early training at the flying school, Brown wit- 
nessed a sad accident which resulted in the death of one of his 
instructors. On his second visit to the flying field he was to be 
taken up on his first air trip by Lieutenant Baily. Just before 
making the flight Baily remarked that his motor did not sound 
right and that he was going to test it out. A few minutes later 
he was in the air while Brown stood watching the test. He flew 
to the end of the field and while making a loop, fell from the 
machine and was instantly killed. The machine flew by itself 
for over a half mile, and then crashed to the ground a total wreck. 

In November, Brown was taken sick and was in the hospital 
for eight days. He was given a sick leave for a short period and 
on December 12, 19 18 was discharged as an active member of 
His Majesty's service. He is at present writing, a reserve mem- 
ber of the Royal Air Force of England. 

(Reported by James Conway, '20.) 



40 the war work of a. p. h. s. 

George Jeffries, '20 

George Jeffries enlisted in the U. S. Navy at New York 
City, April 2, 1918. After a preliminary training of one month 
at Newport he was sent to a hospital for an operation. Upon 
his recovery he was assigned to the ship U. S. North Carolina, 
as a gunner's mate, June 4, 1918. 

On this ship Jeffries soon saw active service and had many 
interesting experiences. Soon after Jeffries went aboard, the 
North Carolina was ordered to New York and with three or 
four transports was sent across to France. Altogether, Jeffries 
made nine trips across, stopping on the second at Brest and on the 
fourth at Iso Island, off the coast of Spain. 

Jeffries and his mates had the luck of seeing two German 
submarines, the one at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the 
other off the coast of France. In the latter case his ship fired 
six ten inch guns but failed to secure a hit. 

During these nine voyages the influenza was at times very 
severe. On the fifth voyage, one of the ships in the convoy, the 
President Grant, suffered from a serious attack of the disease 
and lost about twenty-five men. These men were wrapped up in 
the American flag and buried at sea. 

All kinds of amusements were provided for the men on 
board. On Labor Day, 19 18, they had a regular program of 
events, consisting of such things as dancing, singing, boxing, etc. 
The last number of the program was a boxing match between 
Jeffries and McGouigg. It was fought to a six round draw. 
While on board the ship Jeffries played with the football team, 
playing end and halfback. He also made third base on the base- 
ball team. The team would play every time it would land in 
harbor. On December 14, the ship landed in New York and about 
six days later Jeffries with about six hundred of his mates re- 
ceived their discharge papers. 

(Reported by Ralph Shibla, '20.) 



the war work of a. p. h. s. 41 

Albert Wood, '20 

Letters from Albert Wood, who joined the navy, tell some- 
thing about the life of a sailor. The following are parts from 
two of his letters home : 

"Newport, R. I. 

"We had something to learn when we joined the U. S. N., 
and that was sleeping in a hammock. I find one the most com- 
fortable bed I have ever used. There is only one thing that 
troubles me, and that is getting into the hammock, as they are 
'slung up' about six feet from the 'deck' (floor). The way I get 
in is to 'grab' the 'jack-stays' and vault in. I am getting used 
to it now. 

"It is not a hard life at all, at least as far as I have gone. 
The only thing I cannot get used to is getting up at 5 A. M., 
and there is no chance to sleep over time as you are awakened 
by a squad of eight bugles, a bass drum, and two kettle drums. 
And if that don't wake you, you're hit on the head with a ten- 
inch night stick. 

"The feature of the station is drill, drill, drill. Reveille (get 
up call) sounds at 5 A. M., then you have two hours drill before 
'mess.' After 'mess' you take a cold shower. After shower, 
from 8 till 11, you drill. Then you have noon mess at 11.30. 
After that until 3 you drill. The rest of the P. M. is yours. 
Supper at 6 ; from then until 9 is your own time ; then bed , and 
you're mighty glad to get there." 

"U. S. S. Arizona, Box E, 

"Care Postmaster, N. Y. C. 

"While on the 'big pond,' we had a couple days of rough 
weather, but as I like the water, I made a good sailor, and did 
not get seasick. Quite a few of the men were down and out, 
and among them were two of my side-kickers, or companions, 
with whom I work. The chief got a couple of new men and 
gave me a 'steady watch.' I mean by 'watch' that after the new 
men came, I have to stand watch now, guard, I suppose you would 
call it. I stand four hours watch, then have eight off. The only 
watch in which I lose sleep is the midnight until 4 in the morning. 
I am getting used to that now, so that it does not bother me." 

Beacon, November 1917- 



42 the war work of a. p. h. s. 

Corporal Horace ("Cud") Brown, '19 

Corporal Horace Brown, class '19, was a member of Old Co. 
H of Asbury Park. His military record in France is highly 
interesting and one of which his school can well be proud. Brown 
was in the St. Mihiel Drive and the Argonne Forest. His com- 
pany was gassed twice. In the Argonne Forest all the commis- 
sioned officers were lost in the first days fighting and at the end 
of seven days fighting out of approximately two hundred who 
entered only thirty-seven answered roll call. It was at this point 
that Brown assisted in saving the life of Captain Williams who 
had met with a deadly wound. A more detailed account of these 
events is given below. 

Corporal Brown enlisted at Asbury Park June 5, 19 17. He 
was then a member of Old Co. H. This company was afterward 
combined with Co. B of Camden, N. J., to form Co. E, 114 Inf., 
29 Div., containing about two hundred and fifty men. 

Company E got its preliminary training at Anniston, Ala- 
bama, where it passed the winter of 191 7 — a winter well known 
for its severity even in the South. They were located amidst a 
strip of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Often the thermometer was 
below zero and amidst wind and sleet their tents were torn to 
shreds and sometimes blown into the air. 

In May, 191 8, they were transferred to Newport News, Va., 
where they received full equipment for over seas. The company 
sailed Friday, June 13 — "an ominous date" says Brown, "if 
you are superstitious." 

While just off the coast out from New York their convoy 
was attacked by two German submarines but both were sunk. 

After about a two weeks trip they landed at St. Nazaire, 
France, whence shortly they were sent up to the front on the 
Alsace sector where they were stationed from July 23 to Septem- 
ber 18, 1918. 

Shortly after arriving in this part of the front Corporal 
Brown was sent to an intelligence school of snipers, scouts and 
observers, having qualified for the work of a sniper by his record 
as a sharp shooter at Camp McClellan in the States. 

It was during this period of absence from his company that 
Corporal Brown accidently met his brother Frank in a little town 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 43 

named Geromineal. Brown says of the meeting "we fell into 
each others arms and lived happy forever afterward." 

In the latter part of July he returned to his company still in 
the trenches. They remained in the trenches for six or seven days 
at a stretch and then got a five days rest. This five days rest, 
however, was spent in drill and it was a toss up as to which was 
the worst, life in the trenches or drill at rest camp. At this point 
Brown took a fling at the sunny climate of France. He said rain 
in the trenches was horrible to remember. 

In this sector on September 16, they were gassed in the 
trenches. On such occasions the men were supposed to be relieved 
immediately by fresh men, but their company was there from 4 130 
A. M. to 10 P. M. without relief. About a dozen men died and the 
entire company was sent to the hospital. 

After being released they were later sent to the Argonne 
by the Germans thru noise made by the men of the 1st Battalion 
which arrived October 12 at 3 A. M. On this day the Germans 
put over a box barrage of mustard gas and the men of Co. E were 
caught in a death trap. They had been in this fighting for seven 
days, and it was during this time that the company suffered the 
heavy losses in officers and men referred to in the first paragraph. 

It was during this fight that Corporal Brown as one of four 
volunteers helped save the life of Captain Williams. The captain 
had received a deadly wound. All the men had been gassed and 
were vomiting profusely. While it meant passing thru a terrible 
barrage these men carried Captain Williams to a first aid station 
in time to save his fast ebbing life. 

As a result of this gassing of October 12, Brown was laid 
up in the hospital for two months. 

Sometime after the armistice was signed, he was returned to 
the States and honorably discharged from Camp Dix, N. J. 

Francis M. Porch, '19 

Francis M. Porch whose letters to the Beacon are printed 
below was in camp at Anniston, Alabama, previous to his service 
abroad. He sailed from New York June 28, 1918, with the 112 
H. F. A. on the ship Melita which was one of thirteen ships in 
the convoy. The ships experienced no trouble from submarines. 



44 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Passing thru England they crossed the channel on the night 
of July 13 and landed at Le Havre. Shortly after this the bat- 
talion went into billets near Poitiers where they remained for 
several weeks. 

About this time Porch was one of a detail sent to Fort 
Neuf-Vincennes near Paris to buy and ship horses to the front. 
His visit to Paris at this time is described in his letter of Septem- 
ber 15, printed below. 

Subsequent to this he was sent to Chateau Thierry with a 
consignment of horses where as he says he saw "a little of the 
real thing for a few days." Reference to this detail also is made 
in this same letter. 

On his return from Chateau Thierry he was sent to the Army 
School of Gas Warfare at Langres and then to the School of Fire 
in Brittany. At this latter place he rejoined his battalion and 
was located here from September 1 to the morning of November 
11, 1918. 

It was during his stay in Brittany that this letter was written, 
and it was at this time they were expecting soon to be sent to 
the front and were "chafing under the delay." 

After the signing of the armistice, Corporal Porch says, "a 
couple of my friends and myself decided to tour a little on our 
own, so we took French leave, boarded the first freight north 
bound and worked up to St. Mihiel, gave the city and its fortifi- 
cations the 'once over' and proceeded on back into the hills. After 
we had satisfied our curiosity, we started homeward. Upon 
reaching my battery a day or so later I was once more welcomed 
into the fold, but I was again most fortunate for the guard house 
doors did not open to greet me." 

In December they were sent to Raincourt where they re- 
mained for over four months "drilling, road building and general 
'Sweet Peaing' (purely an army term not found in the diction- 
ary.)" 

In May they embarked from St. Nazaire and shortly landed 
in this country at Newport News, Va. Concerning his arrival he 
says that our own country never looked so good to us before. The 
following kept repeating in my mind : 

"Breathes there a man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said 
This is my own, my native land." 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 45 

Corporal Porch was honorably discharged from Camp Dix 
June 4, 19 19. 

(The above summary was taken from a letter of Francis 
M. Porch). 

The following letters from Porch were printed in the Beacon, 
December, 1918. 

Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala., Jan. 6, 19 18. 

This battery of heavy artillery that I am with is one of the 
crack batteries of the regiment, and yet General Morton, who has 
just returned from the battlefields of France, says we lack dis- 
cipline. Do you know what that word means? It means this — 
If a commander was told to march his men one thousand yards 
nearer the enemy, and he took them two thousand, because he 
knew his men were brave, in all likelihood every man would be 
killed by the shells from their own artillery, and all on account of 
the absence of discipline in their commander. Discipline is the 
obeying to the letter what you are called upon to do, and not 
doing one thing more. I am all alone here in my tent this after- 
noon and it is raining hard, and I have a good fire going to keep 
warm by, so I do not mind how cold it gets outside. We had a 
lot of snow here last week but that is all gone now and spring 
will soon be here. 

I received a promotion to gun corporal of a six-inch piece 
in the Third Section. I was only a caisson corporal before, and 
I hope that soon I may be changed to a sergeant. Now I hope 
the studying I have done will give me first-class gunner. Then 
I won't be able to go much further along that line and I can 
then start in on the horses. Our school hours were from eight 
to ten and from one to four, with three hours study at night. We 
covered a 280-page text book in five days and had a fifty-two ques- 
tion examination on it. You see they ask us a few more questions 
at these schools than they did in high school. 

When we started in two weeks ago we had to study the 
different duties of a private, corporal, platoon guide and leader, 
and captain ; how to draw and read maps, how to handle men 
under fire, target designation, using the vertical and horizontal 
clock system, also range estimating and computing. We have 120 
horses to take care of besides two six-inch guns, four caissons, 



46 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

and our harness and equipment. It keeps us busy from morning 
till mess at night. 

I start in bayonet school next week and that is two more 
weeks of hard work, but it is work of the most interesting kind. 

France, Sept. 15, 191 8. 
Dear Folks: 

Here we are, not far from the firing line, and by the time 
this reaches you, we will have received our first "baptism of fire" 
for which we have been working such a long, long time, and of 
course we are quite anxious to get into it and are chafing under 
the delay. I am a little luckier than the rest though, for I was on 
a detail a month or so ago which took me right up to the lines, 
so I have seen a little of it. While the rest have been diligently 
plugging away and doing their bit, I have been touring France in 
first class compartments which I think are more comfortable than 
our Pullman cars in dear old U. S. Among the cities I have been 
in is first of all, Paris. The beauty of that city has to be seen. 
The last time I was there I visited Napoleon's Tomb and Eiffel 
Tower ; Museum de Louvre was closed so I did not get in. I 
went to Notre Dame of course, and I am not going to attempt 
to describe the beauty and grandeur of that magnificent cathedral, 
for it would take one with a deep sense of feeling and with an 
ability to write his feelings to give the place its just dues as far 
as writing about it goes. We were there when the chimes were 
played, and they must be made of silver from the way they 
sounded. I happened to be in Paris at the time of its last bom- 
bardment which was in July. 

I started this letter last night a few minutes before "Taps" 
and Percy Couse was here beside me writing home. He is in the 
next battery to mine, and we manage to get together nearly every 
night, so we don't get lonely, in the least. Then there are Miller, 
Chamberlain, and Sergeant Smith. We often talk of the old 
days at the A. P. H. S., and I might even say that sometimes 
we get a little homesick and wish we were going to be with you 
again when this war is over. And our thoughts are with you as 
you start in the new year, and we are all wishing you the best 
of luck. 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 47 

You may wonder how we are living over here, and what our 
quarters look like. Well, I have two ammunition boxes, nice 
soft ones you know, made out of pine boards, the softest kind 
to be found unless the boards are of hard pine — for my bed. I 
have a head-sack filled with hay over them, then my three blankets. 
For a table I have a Heinz bean box; and on the desk is my 
library, consisting of one dictionary, three drill regulations, my 
testament, and my diary, and a French dictionary, too. Over my 
desk hangs my barrack bag, and beside that hangs my 45 caliber 
colt pistol, then my gas mask (which is some infernal machine 
to make you as uncomfortable as possible while wearing it). I 
am the gas commissioned officer now, and I hear some very strange 
excuses from men I catch with their masks not properly adjusted 
when they should be wearing them. Well, there goes the bugle and 
I shall have to stop. Please tell any of the girls you care to that 
we don't get as many letters over here as we want to, and that 
we are delighted to hear of things going on around home. I will 
answer all I get. Give my best regards to Mr. Huff, Mr. Hemp- 
hill, Miss Galvin, Miss Nafe, Miss Kauffmann, Miss Parkhill, 
Miss Voorhees, and all the rest we know. I am, 

Sincerely yours, 

Francis M. Porch, '18. 
Corp. Francis M. Porch, 

Battery E, 112th H. F. A., 

American Expeditionary Forces. 

Percy Osborn Potter, '19 

About one month after our entrance into the war Percy 
Osborn Potter, then a Junior in the high school, enlisted in Old 
Co. H at Asbury Park. On July 25, this company was mobilized 
for training at Camp Edge, Sea Girt, N. J., and on October 11 
federalized and organized as Company E, 114 Infantry at Camp 
McClellan, Anniston, Alabama. 

At this camp they spent the winter and had their preliminary 
training. In the next June they were transferred to Newport 
News and from here sailed for France June 13, '18. 

Landing at St. Nazaire, they took a thirty-one mile hike with 
baggage amounting to one hundred ten pounds exclusive of 
helmet, rifle and gas mask. 



48 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

From July 25 to September 18, they were put in defence at 
Honte, Alsace. Here they were gassed September 16. Thirteen 
men died as a result of this gassing and the rest of the company 
were sent to the hospital. 

During October the company was engaged in five battles 
as follows: Malbronch Hill October 7-1 1; Bois de Ormont, Oc- 
tober 13; Mellor Valle Farm, October 16; Grand Montonge, Oc- 
tober 26 ; and Bois Bellan, October 28-29. 

It was during this latter engagement that Potter, with four 
other men, was sent out as a relief party. Upon leaving the lines 
they were spied by a German plane which scooped down on them, 
opening rapid fire. Potter, with one other escaped and crept back 
into the trenches, but no one ever knew what happened to the 
other three. 

Shortly after this, in a letter to his mother Percy wrote: 

"Relieved from the lines October 31 ; I took my first wash 
and shave in seventeen days." 

April 23, '19, Co. E left France and was demobilized May 
16, at Camp Dix, N. J. 

(Reported by Mabel Darling, '20.) 

TWYFORD WHYTE, '19 

Twyford Whyte, '19, spent almost two years in the service 
and at the time of the signing of the armistice was located at 
Metz in preparation for the drive of the 14th. 

"Twyt" enlisted in the 1st N. J. Field artillery at Sea Girt, 
N. J., September 10, 1917. Shortly afterward his regiment was 
transferred to Camp McClellan and became Battery H, of the 
112th Field Artillery. After an intensive training of about ten 
months at Camp McClellan, the boys were glad when orders came 
for foreign service. Leaving Hoboken, N. J., June 28, 1918, and 
going by way of England, they landed in France July 12. Their 
ship was one of the thirteen transports protected by two American 
battle ships and eleven torpedo boat chasers. The trip was made 
in safety and with the loss of one man killed accidently. 

From the landing place at Havre they went into billets at 
Portiers for six weeks. While here they were equipped with 
fresh horses and new French I55*s — a type of gun slightly larger 
than the American 6's used at Camp McClellan. 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 49 

From Poitiers they went to Camp Meucom near Vannes. 
This was an American type of camp with barracks, Y. M. C. A. 
Huts, etc. Here they were given two more months of intensive 
training in hiking, bayonet drill, gas masks and field artillery. 
Before leaving they were given motor tractors for their guns and 
had the distinction of being the first fully motorized regiment 
of heavy field artillery in France. 

"Twyt's" account of army rations is interesting. For break- 
fast they had prunes, cooked corn meal and black coffee. The 
noon day meal received the dignified title of "Army Slum" — a 
stew of meat cut up with a few potatoes. In addition there were 
potatoes boiled with the jackets on, bread and black coffee. In 
the evening they had corn willy, beans, stewed apples and bread. 
Corn willy is another name for corned beef — it was sometimes 
made into hash. 

After the signing of the armistice, the regiment remained in 
France for about six months. Sailing on the Orizaba they landed 
at Newport News, Va., May 19, and v/ere discharged from Camp 
Dix, June 5, 1919. 

William Becker, '18 

William Becker enlisted April 21, 1917 in the N. Y. National 
Guard. July 16, he was mustered into service and transferred 
to the 27th Division. 

After some service in this country his regiment was fitted 
for over seas and sailed on the Great Northern July 1, '18. On 
board there were 4000 troops of which 700 were negro soldiers. 
They reached Brest, France July 22, '18. 

By October 1, the regiment had reached Feneau and was 
prepared to leave for Metz, but as in many other cases the boys 
were doomed to disappointment. In a letter written Christmas 
night from his barracks in the attic of a little French house to 
his mother, the young soldier laments his fate of not being in 
active battle and attributes it to a round of circumstances, the 
last of which was an epidemic of influenza. The command, in- 
cluding the 71st and the 64th, were to have found their target 
projectiles October 25 and then go to Metz, but "flu" prevented. 
Again on November 2 the company was to proceed to the front, 
but there was a general mixup and the 8-inch guns were not ready 



50 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

for firing until November 6 when the command was given to 
stop. The armistice was signed November n and that put an 
end to the hopes of the boys of seeing the front. 

February 12, the regiment was inspected by General Pershing 
at St. Nazaire and he judged them to be the best artillery* regiment 
in the American Expeditionary Forces in France. February 13 
the regiment embarked on the Manchuria for the United States. 
At sea they lost eight men because of influenza. Although not in 
actual battle the regiment lost sixty-five men through disease or 
accident. The Manchuria reached Hoboken February 22. Becker 
was discharged March 8, 1919. 

(Reported by Samuel Becker, '20.) 

Sergeant Clarence Burrell, '18 

Sergeant Clarence Burrell enlisted at Philadelphia, August 5, 
1918, as a member of the 813 Pioneer Infantry of Penna. His 
early training was secured at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe. Ohio, 
where he was appointed as a sergeant acting in the capacity of 
a company clerk. 

Leaving Hoboken September 15, his company reached France 
eleven days later and by October 7 was under shell fire. On No- 
vember 9 they were sent to the front and were engaged in the 
Meuse-Argonne offensive until the nth. 

Before this last engagement Sergeant Burrell had a very 
thrilling experience. On November 5, '18, he was selected to ac- 
company the commanding officer and lieutenant on a tour to the 
front about thirty-five kilometers from the Metz line. 

Leaving their dugouts about 8 o'clock in the morning, they 
crossed "No Man's Land" and before they knew it were in the 
midst of bursting shells from planes over head and a barrage 
which was set ahead of them. Quickly they jumped out of their 
car and ran to the nearest dugout about fifty yards away where 
they secured safety. 

April 7, '19, Burrell left the 813 Infantry to become a Hut 
Secretary of the A. E. F., Y. M. C. A. in France. He remained 
in this service until he was honorably discharged. He arrived 
home August 23, '19, on the French steamer which conveyed the 
Y. M. C. A. officers and secretaries. 

(Reported by McQuillan Walker, '20.) 



the war work of a. p. h. s. 51 

Nathaniel Burrell, 'i8 

Nathaniel Burr ell, former student and football player of the 
high school, who is now stationed at Camp Mead, writes in a 
letter dated October 27 : 

"After getting off the trains, we marched in order of the 
districts we left in Philadelphia, in mud and clay to the heart of 
the camp. The quarters are houses of two stories, accommodating 
about two hundred men each. They have ten large rooms for 
sleeping bunks, a large mess room, a kitchen, and an office. 

"In front of the quarters the men were run off in two long 
columns, and then were questioned and searched, both baggage 
and clothing. After that, bunks were assigned to them. 

Each man has an iron cot, two blankets and a quilt. We 
had to take nice white ticking and fill it with straw for our mat- 
tresses. After this it was supper time, and take it from me, I 
was the second in line, ahead of 250 or more men. So you know 
that I had my hand on the throttle (kitchen door), and my eyes 
on the rails (eats)." 

The next installment of the letter, written October 29, says : 
"Gee, I am just bubbling over with news of recent events. I bet 
no one can guess what I have to do. I have been selected tem- 
porary stenographer to the captain of this company and I was at 
the typewriter from 7 till 10 last night. I hope the Lord will 
guide my fingers and keep me from making mistakes. Out of 
the 250 men I seem to be the only available stenographer. 

Beacon, November, 1917. 

Adrian Phillips, '18 

Adrian Phillips enlisted in the Marines September 23, 1918. 
We was sent to Paris Island for preliminary training and while 
there says he did nothing but drill eight hours a day and draw 
his thirty per month. 

From Paris Island he went to Philadelphia where he joined 
the Military Police in March, 19 19. 

From Philadelphia he was sent to Caldwell, N. J., in May, 
where his work was to help build the rifle range. While at this 
place, Adrian says his chief duty was to push one cart of sand 
about the length of a block every six hours. 

He was mustered out of the service August 2y, 191 9. 

(Reported by Ralph Shibla, '20.) 



52 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Corporal Elizabeth M. Shoemaker, '18 

Corporal Elizabeth M. Shoemaker, class 1918 and later of 
Pratt Institute, was one of our girls who answered the call of the 
country and achieved excellent success in her line of work. 

When the government was badly in need of women workers 
in the various departments in Washington at the outbreak of the 
war, Miss Shoemaker was ranked as the eighth highest average 
holder in an examination passed by 1,000 girls. She immediately 
took up her duties in the Marine Corps and after the majority of 
her co-workers had left the service, was retained to complete 
work that she alone was competent to finish. Her resignation 
from that department was delayed until March 1, 1920. 

Upon leaving this work she entered the publicity department 
of the New York Y. W. C. A. where she distinguished herself as 
a scenario writer in the production of the screen picture known 
as "No Address." 

B. Frank Brown, '17 

The following is a copy of a letter written to "Hap" Brown 
by the editor. It gives some view of the school life and general 
situation here shortly before the signing of the armistice. 

Asbury Park, N. J., 

Nov. 3, 1918. 
Dear Hap: 

It sure was a pleasure to get your fine letter. What a glory 
to be in the St. Mihiel Drive. It was one of those American 
achievements which has added a new lustre to "Old Glory" — a 
gleam which shall not dim for a thousand years. It may be mud 
and rain now but in the future these hardships will take on a 
different hue and it will be a pleasure to recall them. 

We were hit hard with the "flu." School was closed a month. 
— Things have been going all O. K. otherwise. It is true that 
nearly all our bigger boys have gone either to war or work. It 
has made school seem rather quiet and certainly has robbed our 
athletic teams. 

But everything is so changed since the war that you take it 
as a matter of course. You have one consolation during your 
absence from dear old U. S. A. and that is that at present our 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 53 

life is a very tame, uneventful one whose chief interest is reading 
the deeds of our boys "over there." 

But that is thrilling. I remember three days ago I came 
thru Philadelphia, and over there at Broad Street station, the 
newspapers had large black head-lines and the "Newsies" were 
calling "Uxtruh !" "Uxtruh !" "Turkey Surrenders !"— and then I 
felt something creeping around the roots of my scalp and it 
wasn't a cootie either. 

Well, we're holding the home front and when the boys come 
home, we'll be able to do something more to make democracy 
still more democratic. 

I'm enclosing some college scores. So far we have had but 
little football. There was one inter-class game in which the Juniors 
beat the Seniors y-6. But football will not take on its old time 
color until the war is over. 

It's my feeling that the fighting will cease before Christmas. 
I'm in this latest draft but have but little worry. 

I put your address on the bulletin board at school, so you 
may get some missives from dear old A. P. H. S. 

Had a letter from Dr. Rowland at Base Hospital 44 He 
had the flu. 

With best wishes and lots of luck to you and all the boys, 

Yours as ever, 

Fred E. Malick. 

Lieutenant L. T. Drew, '17 

The following account, written by Lieutenant Drew, gives 
an excellent description of the training at Plattsburg Barracks. 
In the Diary Notes appended one gets a further intimate view 
into some additional phases of the soldier boy's life. 

"Left Asbury Park on July 14, 1918, in company with Walter 
Woolly, '15 for Plattsburg Barracks, Plattsburg, New York. Was 
sworn into service on July 16, 1919, along with forty-five hundred 
other college men. 

Plattsburg Barracks is situated on the shore of Lake Cham- 
plain about five miles from the town of Plattsburg. A small 
trolley line— very similar to the belt line— connects the camp with 
Plattsburg. The town of Plattsburg is a small quiet town of 



54 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

about three or four thousand inhabitants. It boasts of one dance 
hall and two moving picture houses. 

The camp itself is very well laid out and most adequately- 
equipped for a training camp. The barracks are about two hun- 
dred feet long and forty feet wide. The bunks are of wood 
and are all double deckers. Each barrack will accommodate ap- 
proximately two hundred men. 

A large stadium is situated in the middle of a large pine 
grove, a short distance from the camp and in this place, pictures 
are shown along with special pictures showing different phases of 
military life. 

The first week of camp was spent in getting equipped and 
learning the manual of arms. After that we settled down to real 
work — the school of the soldier, the school of the squad and the 
school of the company. This work is very monotonous as it is 
the same thing over from morning until night. The main object 
of this close order drill is to create discipline and to get men 
into a body or organization that can be moved from place to place 
expediently. 

The beginning of the third week we started in the bayonet 
work. This is very interesting but also very hard. We first had 
to build several bayonet courses. This work was done by details 
picked from each company in the camp, I believe my name was 
the only one the top knew, as I never missed a detail. The course 
was in charge of an English captain who had been through the 
battle of the Marne and the Gallipolli campaign. The course was 
very hard and in some cases a little dangerous. Several men were 
injured in the course of the camp. 

The beginning of the fifth week we took up open order work 
and over-seas formations. This work was very hard and took 
a great deal of studying and practicing to be done properly. It 
is all done at double time and as the mercury was at about ioo 
degrees most of the time it was really a wonderful recreation. 

The seventh week we spent on the range. There is nothing 
really exciting about this work but one very odd incident hap- 
pened in one of the companies — at least it is related on the range. 
A company was drawn up after having been on the line. The 
top gave the order for inspection of arms. One of the men on 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 55 

closing his piece and pulling the trigger, shot a hole through the 
brim of the hat of the man next to him. 

The last three days of camp were spent on a hike and field 
maneuver. The last day we were in skirmish formation the entire 
time and that was the hardest part of my army career. 

On September 16, 1918, I was commissioned as Second 
Lieutenant of Infantry and ordered to the College of the City 
of New York as an Instructor of Military Tactics. 

There were at the college at this time about 3,000 men in 
addition to some U. S. Regulars of the Signal Corps. Here I 
reported for duty on September 25 and was in charge of a com- 
pany of two hundred and thirty of the greenest men ever made. 
There were only about four men over the rank of Second Lieu- 
tenant on the post so it was up to us to take charge of the 
companies. 

After picking out the men I thought suitable for N. C. O. 
positions, I ran a school in the evenings from eight until ten and 
soon had a few men to help in the organization of the company. 
The company was drilled eight hours a day for three weeks and 
soon was in fairly good shape. Besides having charge of the 
company every officer had other duties. I was assistant bayonet 
instructor, military hygiene lecturer and assistant supply officer, 
at various times. 

The same order of work was kept up until December 18, 
when the company was disbanded. A fare- well dance was given 
on December 17 and the company presented me with an automatic 
revolver as a keep-sake. I often thought that they hoped I would 
shoot myself with it, but so far I have been fortunate enough to 
fool them. 

From December 18 to January 17 I acted as assistant supply 
officer and on January 18 was honorably discharged from the 
United States army." 

Dairy Notes 
plattsburg 

"August 25 (or about) on guard. Had a nice long post in the 
railroad by the post store houses. Weather hotter than hell itself. 



56 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Rained during the night — wet either from rain or sweat — didn't 
give a damn either way. 

Sept. 5 (or about) had a dinner at the Hotel Champlain of 
all Alplo Chi Rho men. Had a deuce of a time getting a pass 
but finally got out. Had one fine time — good eats and great fel- 
lowship. 

Sept. 12 (or about) Company dinner given in same trick 
hotel in Plattsburg. Had a devil of a good time. Whole company 
allowed out until twelve o'clock. Had to walk back to Plattsburg 
Barracks and was late — but got by the guard all right — C Company 
man. He was tired as thunder and so were we. 

Sept. 10 (or about). Big maneuver given out in the trenches 
for the benefit of the college presidents who looked on about a 
half mile away. Had about 10 machine guns going — used a slew 
of good hard grenades up — shot away a lot of good blanks, made 
bayonet attack after bayonet attack. Carried up supplies and dug 
new trenches like a regular sand hog. The affair lasted about eight 
hours and I don't believe I was allowed to stop running once the 
whole damn time. Slept in the trenches that night and got back 
to camp about noon the next day. 

NEW YORK 

Thanksgiving Day (Commander of the Guard) had dinner 
with a very nice family in 123rd Street. (Cannot think of name). 
Lieutenant Coulemb relieved me for two hours enabling me to 
take advantage of this chance at a real feed. Also had a turkey 
dinner at the post which was not a mean affair at all. 

Review held on November 5 or about, commented upon 
very favorably in the New York papers. Pictures of the review 
in the pictorial section of the New York Times. Witnessed by 
several thousand. Company F given second place in drill com- 
petitions and also in manual of arms competition. 

November 7 (or about) Inspected by Rear Admiral Roth — 
U. S. A., designer and builder of Great Lakes Naval Station. 
Admiral commented favorably upon condition of the Naval sec- 
tion. Fine man — very congenial and yet very military." 

L. T. Drew, '17. 

(Reported by James Conway, '20.) 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. ^7 

Russell Van Kirk, '17 

Russell Van Kirk enlisted with the Red Bank Cavalry, Troop 
B in March, 191 7. After five months training at Sea Girt and 
Anniston, Alabama, he was transferred to the officers reserve 
corps of the aviation section and sent to Princeton to take a ground 
school course in aero-dynamics and theory of flight. He com- 
pleted the course in eight weeks and was sent to Called Field, 
Wichita Falls, Texas, for training as a pilot. 

It was while in training at this place he experienced his 
first narrow escape. While five hundred feet in the air, his 
machine caught fire. He landed in a back yard, and jumping from 
his machine, made his escape with no more serious injury than a 
sprained ankle. 

Soon after this escape, he completed the course. He was 
then made a second lieutenant, and sent to Brooks Field, San 
Antonio, Texas, for an instructors course. This course was com- 
pleted in two months. 

He was then sent to. Mathers Field, Sacramento, California, 
as an instructor. Here he had his most thrilling adventure as an 
aviator. 

He was instructing a student one day, and while two thou- 
sand, five hundred feet in the air, signaled the student to nose- 
dive. The student did so, but when they were nearing the ground, 
the machine had not yet straightened out. Lieutenant Van Kirk 
turned around to see what was wrong. He saw the 
student pale as death, with his hands on the controls, unable to 
move an inch. Lieutenant Van Kirk pushed the student back- 
wards, so as to get him away from the controls, and straightened 
out the machine five feet from the ground. 

After one month there he received overseas orders and pro- 
ceeded to Hoboken whence he sailed September 17. Landed in 
Liverpool, England, after a twelve day trip with a fifteen ship 
convoy. During the voyage and while in the danger zone five 
men were washed overboard by a gigantic wave. Four of the 
men were picked up but the fifth, disobeying orders by not wear- 
ing a life belt, was lost. 

After spending one week in England he crossed the English 
Channel sailing at night in a cattle boat. The boat landed at 



58 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Le Havre at four o'clock in the morning after a rough and ex- 
citing trip. 

After spending several days in a rest camp at Le Havre, he 
proceeded to St. Marient which was the aviation concentration 
center of the A. E. F. in France. From this place he went to 
Issudan, the largest aviation center in the world. Here he re- 
ceived instructions in the French scout planes, which were single 
seaters and had the speed of one hundred and fifty miles an hour. 

After five months of training, he received orders for the 
front. Three days before proceeding to the front, the armistice 
was signed. He was granted a ten day leave which he spent in 
travelling. Went to Marseilles, Lyons, Nice, Monte Carlo, Island 
of Morroco and the Italian border. Was fortunate to be in Paris 
when President Wilson entered. 

Sailed from Brest, January 17 on the first transport to come 
home. Landed at Boston and was royally received. Mustered out 
and given an honorable discharge at Miniola, February 30, 1919. 

(Reported by Darius Pierce, '19.) 

Samuel Guerin, '15 

Samuel Guerin, class of 191 5, was a Junior at Princeton 
University, when the United States entered the World War of 
1914. He enlisted in November 19 17, and was called to active 
service on January 5, 191 8. 

In November 1917, Guerin successfully passed his entrance 
examinations for the aviation section of the service, and was 
assigned to the balloon division. 

After enlistment, he was sent to the Collegiate Balloon 
School at Macon, Georgia. Here, he was placed as a cadet, and 
made seven free balloon flights. The last of these flights, a solo 
one, was, perhaps, his most exciting one at Macon. He went 
up 4,000 feet, and stayed at this elevation during a period of sixty 
minutes. Reference to this flight is made in his letter of Janu- 
ary 26. 

After finishing the prescribed course at the school in Macon, 
Guerin was sent to Omaha, Nebraska, for a short time. He was 
then transferred to the University of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, to 
take up a more detailed balloon course. After six weeks of study- 
ing, he was sent back to Omaha again. 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 59 

In July 191 8, he was sent to Arcadia, California, in order to 
complete his flying course. Contrary to his practise flights in 
Macon, Guerin now used captive balloons, and spent his time 
learning to make successful maps. He was required to be accurate 
in details, and also to be able to see at a distance of fifteen miles, 
with his glasses. 

It was at Arcadia that Samuel Guerin received his commis- 
sion as a Second Lieutenant of the Balloon Corps, September 1918. 

Early in November, he was ordered to Camp John Wise, San 
Antonio, Texas, for immediate over-seas service. But the most 
disappointing thing of Guerin's experience, was the fact that the 
very day he left Arcadia for San Antonio, was the day on which 
the armistice was signed with the German government. 

Since November 11, he has been in charge of the demobiliza- 
tion of Camp John Wise, and is now at Brook's Field, Texas, 
where with the 78th Company of the Balloon Corps, he is waiting 
for his discharge. 

The following extracts are from letters written to his 
mother : 

Macon, Ga., Jan. 13, 1918. 

* * * Ballooning is certainly class. I wish you could take a 
ride in one. You feel like some bird floating around gracefully in 
the sky ; most of the time we fly higher than birds. I could just 
about see the men on the ground ; all you could see were the white 
faces looking up at us. It makes you feel pretty important. My 
first flight on Wednesday was wonderful. * * *We were up just 
an hour and landed about thirty miles off, on the outskirts of a 
fair sized town. As soon as we landed, a bunch of people began 
to gather. The Chief pilot left me as soon as we landed to go off 
to phone for a truck. He told me to pack the balloon and to hire 
a few men if I needed them to help me. You can imagine how I 
felt, left alone with the big balloon lying all over the ground and 
about two hundred people standing around looking on. * * * I 
never answered so many questions in my life. A couple of re- 
porters took down the stuff I said. It sure made me feel queer. 
* * * The next day, the American 11 flew. This is the biggest 
balloon in the school. We had a great trip. Landed in a cotton 
field. * * * 



60 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Augusta, Ga., January 26. 

* * * Just arrived here after a wonderful four-hour flight 
from Macon. We landed about thirty miles north of here, but 
we landed on the plantation of some Southern gent; and after 
feeding us up wonderfully with a good breakfast and showing 
us around a while, he brought us in town in his car. He also 
brought the balloon in a truck for us. Now we have to wait till 
6 for a train to Macon. This trip this morning was the best I've 
had — the ''night" flight. We started at 3 43 A. M., of course in 
the dark. There was a pretty good moon at first, but that set. 
You can't imagine how wonderful it was in the air, and to see the 
sun rise was great. There was a strong wind above ground so 
that's why we went so far. We landed as gently as a fly. Our 
drag rope caught in some telephone wires, though, and pulled 
down a couple of poles and broke the system on the way down, so 
we couldn't telephone to Macon till we reached here. * * * To- 
day I had to keep all the notes of the trip. You make observations 
every five minutes or so. * * * 

February 3, 1918. 

* * *This morning I was on some shop ballooning repairing 
detail, — on duty from 10-12:30. The people here are beginning 
to treat us great. The Masons have thrown their building open 
to us and say we are welcome there anytime. * * *I'm beginning 
to think more and more that there is nothing safer than ballooning. 
You can't imagine how wonderful it is sailing alone at about thirty 
or forty miles an hour at a fixed altitude. This is regulated by 
two controls, the gas valve and ballast for descending and ascend- 
ing. * * * Did you hear about the four fellows landing in the 
SAvamp yesterday? They say it's in all the Northern papers that 
the fellows were lost, and they make it sound as if they were 
killed or something. * * *The four of them came down on an 
island in the middle of a swamp and were marooned for a couple 
of days. One of these fellows had to swim a river to get word to 
the school about their whereabouts. The fellows had a fine time, 
though; stayed in a shanty, deserted, and killed a wild pig and 
an oppossum to live on. They sent flat boats after them and 
brought them off all right. * * * 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 6l 

February 7, 19 18. 

* * * Well, I am a fullfleclged balloon pilot and a graduate 
of the school. I have to wait till f ortyfour fellows get put through 
seven flights each, and we go to Omaha for the last training before 
we get our commissions. This means a six weeks course at 
Omaha of the hardest kind of work — four weeks of work, one 
week of review, and a week of examinations, and then the com- 
missions and a ten day furlough. * * * Remember me to the 
faculty of A. P. H. S. * * * 

Samuel Guerin. 



Arthur Ladow, '15 

The following accounts from Arthur Ladow appeared in 
the Beacon, February 1918. 

Arthur Ladow, '15, reports exciting times at Fort Slocum at 
meal times : 5,000 men lined up in two lines, double file, kits slung 
over their shoulder, go up to the kitchen to receive their portion, 
then go into the dining-room to eat. It is quite a change from 
china and silver to the tin plate and cup, and the steel knife, but 
most take it in good part. It takes from one to three hours to 
serve a meal. 

Arthur was one of six men in charge of 500 Signal Corps 
men who were taken to Texas, his special charge being two car 
loads of men. At New Rochelle, the Red Cross treated them to 
fruit and sandwiches. From there, the journey was by way of 
Niagara Falls and Canada, down beyond Chicago. At St. Quen- 
tin, the people waved American flags in their honor, instead of 
the English flag. For three days and nights, the trip was in day 
coaches, but later, sleepers were added. At one place six little 
girls dressed as Red Cross nurses, handed each soldier a paper 
napkin containing an orange and candy. The soldiers reached 
Fort Kelly near San Antonio on Christmas Eve. Here they were 
greeted by the citizens who had prepared an elaborate supper 
for them. Arthur and the five other men remained in Texas two 
nights, returning by way of New Orleans, and reaching Fort 
Slocum on New Year's Eve. 



62 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Fort Slocum, N. Y., February 3, 1918. 

* * * I've just come up from the basement where I have been 
doing my weekly wash. I forgot to send it to the laundry last 
week, so I had to do it myself. I can't say that I'm very much 
stuck on the job. I expect Sam (Guerin) has made his acquaint- 
ance with the wash board by this time. He is very fortunate if 
he hasn't. I think by the time this war is over I'll be a pastmaster 
in all kinds of housework. I'm already an expert at washing 
windows and dishes, waiting on table, sweeping and polishing 
floors, and making beds. So you see, I have a pretty good start 
already. But I should worry, for it's all in the game. 

To-morrow I'm slated to go on guard. It isn't a very bright 
prospect, for we have been having a snow storm all day. And 
now it is raining, snowing, hailing, and a little of everythnig else. 
This is the greatest place for bad weather. Every time it looks 
a little cloudy, we have a snow storm. When the thermometer 
gets as high as ten or fifteen above, we think it is warm. * * * 

Joseph Couse, '13 

Joseph Couse enlisted at New York City June 6, 1917. Be- 
coming a member of the Seventh Regiment he left Newport 
News May 10, 1918, and exactly two weeks later arrived in 
France. 

Here his regiment was stationed on the Cambrai sector and 
was in a number of engagements. It was in one of these battles 
on September 29, 19 18 that Couse was struck and escaped death 
in a miraculous way. On that morning at 5 130 the division went 
over the top and sometime between then and 7 130 A. M. he was 
struck by a bullet in the forehead over the left eye. The shot 
came with such a force that it went through his helmet and 
clamped it over both eyes. A nearby corporal whom Couse had 
known in the States rendered first aid. Although badly wounded, 
he was able to walk some distance to a dressing station where his 
wound was dressed and he received food, the first in forty-two and 
one half hours. 

His wound proved to be one of a serious nature and he re- 
ceived treatment for the same in many hospitals. From Hospital 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 63 

73, Tronville, France, he was sent to Hospital 29 London, No- 
vember 9. 

In December he sailed for this country on the Leviathan and 
arrived in New York December 16, 1918. Here he was sent to 
Debarkation Hospital 3 in that city. Thence he was transferred 
to the Camp Dix Base Hospital, then to Cape May Hospital, and 
later to Fox Hills, Staten Island. Mr. Couse has been operated 
upon five times for the wound, and was discharged September 27 > 
1919. 

(Reported by Helen Carleton, '20.) 

Lieutenant Wilson Hunt, '13 

Dr. Wilson Hunt, '13, a first lieutenant in the Dental Corps 
of the United States army, sailed for France last summer and 
is now in the front line trenches in the French sector taken over 
by the American forces. It was the regiment with which Lieu- 
tenant Hunt is connected that bore the brunt of the first fighting 
between the Boches and the American forces in which the latter 
suffered a number of casualties. 

When he first landed in France, Lieutenant Hunt was billeted 
in a small village seventy miles from the battle line. Later he 
was advanced to within a few miles of the trench system taken 
over by the Americans, being located at a point where operations 
along the firing line were clearly discernable. German aeroplanes 
flew over the village daily, but few bombs were dropped, as the 
French planes kept the Fokhers at high altitudes. 

He has been comfortably located at all times, he says, and 
has gained twenty pounds in weight. 

Beacon, February 19 18. 

Lieutenant Donald Sterner, '13 

Lieutenant Donald Sterner entered the Officers Training 
Camp at Fort Niagara, N. Y., May 11, 19 17, and on the com- 
pletion of his training August 15 was commissioned as a Second 
Lieutenant. From Fort Niagara he was sent to Camp Meade, 
then to Camp Hill, Va., where he was commissioned as a first 
lieutenant February 27, 1918. 

Sailing from Newport News June 5 he landed at Brest twelve 
days later and soon after his arrival joined the division at St. 



64 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Nazaire. From the position of Divisional Salvage officer of this 
division, Lieutenant Sterner was promoted first to the position 
of Assistant Salvage officer of the First Army October 5, 1918 
and on February 27, 1919 was made Chief Salvage officer of the 
First Army. 

The different drives in which he participated were, Chateau- 
Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne. He was also with the 
French at Champagne. 

Sterner left France May 5, went around by way of Gibraltar, 
landed in U. S. May 19, and received his discharge May 21, 1919. 

(Reported by Esther Miller, '20.) 



Edith M. Cornell, '12 

Miss Edith Cornell enlisted with the Hospital Recreation Hut 
Service of the American Red Cross on August 1, 1918. She was 
notified of her appointment on November 8, and sailed for Italy 
on November 20. Arriving in Paris on December 10, she was 
assigned to work in the Red Cross Hut at Base Hospital 41, 
in Paris. 

On the day before Christmas, Miss Cornell was sent to Dijon, 
a beautiful city, 200 miles south of Paris. Here, her work was 
with Base Hospital 17. She had charge of distribution of read- 
ing matter for 3,000 patients as well as the management of the 
library in the Hut. She helped also in the canteen. In addition 
to this, she ran a "mending bureau" — the mending consisting 
largely of sewing on service and wound stripes and divisional 
insignia. 

From Dijon Miss Cornell was transferred to Langres April 
15. Here her work was quite similar to that mentioned above. 

Upon the completion of this work at Langres she went on 
leave June 1 and visited Sevit Gerland and southern France. She 
came home by way of England, landing in Boston July 16, 1919. 



(Reported by Alice B. Alden, '20. ) 



the war work of a. p. h. s. 65 

David Brodstein, '09 

The following interesting letters from David Brodstein ap- 
peared in the Beacon, February 1918. 

Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces, 
Office of Chief Quartermaster, France. 

December 5, 191 7. 

I suppose you would be interested to know of the life of the 
men stationed at Pershing's Headquarters in France. 

It is more than two months since I arrived here from Paris 
where the quartermaster men were stationed for five days await- 
ing assignment. We were quartered in Paris at a hotel which is 
one of the three leading hotels being used by the United States 
government in Paris. 

We are at present stationed in French barracks which were 
occupied by the French army prior to the time the American 
headquarters were established here. They are a great deal more 
comfortable than the quarters I expected when I left the States. 
With the exception of a few iron French cots, they were entirely 
furnished by our government. All the offices and barracks are 
heated by stoves burning coal and wood and an ample supply of 
each is provided. French women are employed to keep the stoves 
burning, chop wood, and do the general cleaning around the offices 
and barracks. 

The food served here is as good if not better than that served 
to us at two of the forts I was stationed at while in the United 
States. Most of the supplies are obtained from the United States, 
especially those supplies which cannot be obtained in Europe. 
Everything possible is being done to provide for the comforts 
of the men stationed in France. 

The city itself is about three times the size of Asbury, and 
is three times the distance from Paris as Asbury is from New 
York. There is little amusement for the men here except the 
Y. M. C. A., and that which they provide themselves. The only 
reason the men go to town is for purchases and to the baths. 
These baths are open Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and 
Sunday morning of each week. Shower baths at fifty centimes 
(8^c), and tub baths at one franc (17c), towels and soap extra. 

Many of the men are learning to "parlez Francais" rapidly 



66 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

and most of them can speak it well enough to order their meals. 
Several times I was surprised when asking for something in my 
best French to be answered with: "What- did you say?" 

The American Y. M. C. A. is doing a wonderful work here 
for the men, and does not stop at the American soldiers but 
treats all the Allied armies alike. For Thanksgiving they fur- 
nished free of all costs sandwiches, good American coffee, apples, 
and nuts. The men feel perfectly at home here. There is pro- 
vided for their use a piano, victrola. games, reading and writing 
tables, stationery and other things which go a great way toward 
making the men comfortable. A moving picture machine is to be 
installed shortly. Their exchanges are situated adjacent to the 
camps at the different stops I made in travelling through England 
and France. The Paris Y. M. C. A. hotel is a wonderful place 
and every man who attended the dinner there the first part of 
October will never forget it. The price was only five francs, and 
was worth twenty to any man who endured the English war 
ration which was served us in travelling through England. This 
ration consists of two slices of bacon, tea, and two slices of bread. 

On the boat coming across the Atlantic, I met Jim Ludlum 
of Sixth Avenue. He is driving an automobile for the Ordnance 
Department and is stationed at one of the large seaports of France. 

Chester Miner is with the Railway Engineers of the U. S. 
Army at present serving with the British forces. 

Lieutenant Wilson Hunt is stationed fifty miles from here. 

The train service is very poor. The Erie at its best would 
put these trains to shame for speed. They run according to sched- 
ule like the Owl train of the Jersey Central. 

The buildings (with few exceptions) remind me of the 
"Deserted Village of Allaire." 

The people are very pleasant and encourage the learning of 
French by properly pronouncing any words which we do not 
happen to pronounce correctly. It seems that every youngster in 
France knows an English greeting of some sort, such as "good 
morning," "good night," "good bye," "hello," and numerous other 
words, and makes use of it at every opportunity. 

' Although this city is out of range of the large German 
guns, it is not out of range of the aeroplanes and we are not 
at all surprised if the lights go out suddenly during the evening. 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 6j 

A number of German aeroplanes were brought down nearby and 
four Zeppelins were brought down in a single attack about fifteen 
miles from here about a month ago. Allied aeroplanes are flying 
overhead quite often during the day. 

Lieutenant Jay Sterner, '07 

Lieutenant Jay Sterner entered the Officers Training Camp 
at Fort Niagara, N. Y., May 11, 1917. Upon the completion of 
his course he was commissioned as a first lieutenant and assigned 
to Camp Meade. At the latter place he was made Adjutant of 
the Tenth Machine Gun Battalion. 

Lieutenant Sterner had extensive experience in foreign ser- 
vice. Sailing with the 79th Division he arrived at Brest about the 
middle of July 191 7. After about two months further training in 
France the division entered the trenches September 20 before 
Mount -Faucon. They took part in the Argonne-Meusse drive 
of September 27, were in the Troyom sector from October 10 to 
20, and later in a sector just northeast of Verdun. Jay sailed 
from St. Nazaire May 8, 1919, arrived May 21, and was dis- 
charged June 5. 

(Reported by Esther Miller, '20.) 



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CHAPTER XI 

THE STUDENTS ARMY TRAINING CORPS 

Another branch of the service in which a number of our 
boys were enlisted, was known as the Students' Army Training 
Corps, or as it was usually referred to in abbreviated form, the 
S. A. T. C. This organization in the colleges of this country, was 
established to give preliminary training to college boys, who would 
soon be in line for more active service. Many of them were 
destined for officers training schools in the South after the pre- 
liminary college work was completed. In this way it was hoped 
to supply a sufficient number of intelligent men as officers for the 
large army we were getting under arms. 

Much of the training was given by the regular teaching per- 
sonnel of the college, but some of it was directly under regular 
army officers. 

Some of the subjects followed were mechanical and chemical 
engineering, mathematics, war issues, manual of military training, 
surveying and sanitation hygiene. In addition to these courses, 
there was other work of a more distinctly military character, such 
as field drill, military tactics, and guard duty. 

Along side of this more serious side of the work, the boys 
engaged in certain lines of sport such as football, etc. One of 
the replies coming from Lehigh stated, "Our S. A. T. C. football 
team beat Lafayette's." Don't forget to record that. 

The following is a fairly complete list of our alumni thus 
engaged, 
(i) Brown University, Joseph Grossman. 

(2) Columbia University, Everett Antonides. 

(3) Georgetown University, Victor Carton. 

(4) Lehigh University, Harold Craig, H. Laing, L. L. Drew, 

Preston Newman, W. Warren Nichols, Charles R. 
Wolfe, Fred and Victor De Wysocki. 

(5) Princeton University, Eugene Astarita, Harold McClure, 

Gerald O'Hagan and Stanley Conklin. 



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(6) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harry Rocka- 

fellow. 

(7) University of Pennsylvania, Edgar Sherman, Willard Pit- 

tenger, Julius Goldberg. 

(8) Hahnemann Medical College, Ruby Epstein, Joseph 

Aquilino. 

(9) Lafayette College, Ira Tilton. 

( 10) Little Rock College, Daniel Traverso. 

(11) Rutgers College, Lyle Gaige, Kenneth Angleman. 



JO THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 



CHAPTER XII 

NOTES ON STUDENTS AND ALUMNI IN THE SERVICE 

The following personal notes on students and alumni are 
taken from the various issues of the Beacon during the period 
of the war. They are given in the order in which they appeared. 

In the issue of November 191 7 were found the following 
items : 

Kenneth Angleman, '17, is employed at Camp Dix. 

Jake Borden, '18, is stationed at Newport on the U. S. Tor- 
pedo boat "Biddle." 

Nathaniel Burrell, Jr., '18, recently joined Company F, 368th 
Infantry, Camp Meade, Ind. 

Percy Couse has entered military service and is now a cor- 
poral at Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala. 

Among others from A. P. H. S. who have answered the 
nation's call are: Gene Corish, Norman Smith, James M. Cole- 
man, Albert Wood, Russell Van Kirk, Theodore F. Appleby, 
Edward M. Hope, Dr. Wilson Hunt who is now in France, Arthur 
Ladow, James Forsyth. 

From the issue of December 1917 : 

Samuel Guerin, '15, attending Princeton College, has taken 
and passed an examination for entrance in the Balloon Signal 
Corps. He will remain at Princeton until he receives his assign- 
ment. 

O. Donn Burton, a Senior in the Massachusetts Institute of 
Technology, has enlisted as a private in the Ordnance Corps, 
National Army, and is assigned to Camp American University, 
Washington, D. C, where he is making war gas investigations. 

Capt. Edward Glass, a member of Major General Blackson's 
staff, has just returned from France. 

Samuel Guerin, '15, left on January 6 for Macon, Ga., where 
he is in the Balloon Section of the Aviation Corps. 

Roy Duffield, '11, is in the Aviation Corps in Texas. 

Richard Rowan, '12, is at Washington doing translation work. 

Lieutenant E. D. Sterner, captain of our football team in 



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1912, is now stationed at Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, and has 
been elected on the Ail-American Service eleven. 

Bruce Estelle is stationed at Anniston, Ala. 

Russell Gardner of Company E, 114th Regiment, Camp Mc- 
Clellan has been transferred to the University of Washington, 
D. C. 

Nathaniel Burrell, Jr., '18, is now sergeant of Company F., 
368th Infantry, Camp Meade, Md. 

Corporal Francis Porch is with Battery E, 112th H. F. A., 
at Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala. 

Sergeant Vincent Layton, a former Asbury student, has ar- 
rived safely in France. Describing the entrance to the harbor 
"over there," he writes : 

It was a beautiful sight as we sailed into. the harbor early 
in the morning. It was not the dear old statue of Liberty that 
greeted our eyes but green grass covered hills with a city lying 
in a ravine. The scene was very picturesque and it seemed good 
to see land after seeing so much water. We were favored with 
very good weather until the sixth day out, when we struck a gale, 
and I never saw such waves — they were like huge mountains 
and the ship would rise time after time and then drop into the 
abyss below. 

Roy Duffield, 'ii, of the Aviation Section of the Army, sta- 
tioned at Park Field, Memphis, Tenn., has won his commission 
as lieutenant. Altogether he has been in the air about fifty hours 
and has executed the loop-the-loop, wing-overs, and tail-spins re- 
quired before the completion of the aerial course. 

Lieutenant E. D. Sterner, as a result of the standings he 
attained in the special courses at the Officer's Quartermaster 
School at Camp Johnson, Jacksonville, Fla., has been promoted 
from second lieutenant to first. He is now stationed at Camp 
Hill, Newport News, Va. 

Dr. Werner Hetrick, who for several weeks has been the 
house physician at the new Broad Street Hospital, New York, has 
been employed by the firm of Thompson and Sterritt to act as 
base hospital physician at their construction plant at Grassmere, 
S. I. Dr. Hetrick, will care for 3,000 men, and when more doctors 
are required will be the head physician. 

Corporal James M. Coleman, of the high school faculty, is 



>]2 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

now in France. Mr. Coleman is in the infantry and was formerly 
stationed at Charlotte, N. C. 

Lieutenant Harry J. Rockafeller, '12, has completed a course 
in the Machine Gun Section at the United States Infantry School 
of Arms at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He is now with the 51st Infan- 
try, Regular Army, at Chickamauga Park, Ga. 

Harold Steward, '15, has left Syracuse University and is now 
at Camp Vail. 

Abbott Forfar, '19, is in the Naval Reserve at Pelham, N. 
Y., and has been elected captain of the football team there. 

Donald I. Burton, '13, has enlisted in the Navy. 

James Forsyth, '15, is now in France with the Red Bank 
Ambulance Corps. 

Norman Smith, '17, at Anniston, Ala., has been made a 
corporal. 

Norman Bloodgood, '17, has left Rutgers and enlisted in the 
Navy. At present he is stationed at Pelham Park. 

Willis Rydell, '16, is at Cape May in the Naval Reserve. 

J. M. Coleman is a member of the 311th Infantry football 
team at Camp Dix. 

From the issue of February 1918 : 

Lieut. Eugene Rockafeller, '12, of the 104th Military Police, 
has just treated two pathological cases which have caused so much 
interest among the dentists of the 29th Division that he has been 
invited to prepare a paper to be read before the staff of the base 
hospital. \ 

Lieut. Harry J. Rockafeller, '12, of the 51st U. S. Infantry, 
is now taking a course of instruction in machine gun work at the 
U. S. School of Arms, Fort Sill, Okla. 

Ennis Pierce is now a corporal at Camp Wadsworth, Spartan- 
burg, S. C. 

The following Christmas card was recently received, ad- 
dressed to the alumni of Asbury Park High School: 

In the Field, France. 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

Capt. Joly, '02. 



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CHAPTER XIII 

THE END OF THE WAR 

The following clippings from the Beacon of Christmas 1918 
gave school accounts of the end of the war. 

THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE 

With the signing of the armistice and the occupation of 
German Rhine territory, peace seems assured. The belligerent 
countries will now be occupied with reconstruction and the re- 
establishment of peaceful activities. The schools of America must 
join the army of reconstruction. Indeed, they must lead it. Our 
boys who have entered the service will come back, and we must 
do our utmost to put the school system in order so that they may 
receive the most benefit from their work. We must forget the 
irregularities which were perhaps permissible in war time and 
begin once more the orderly routine which gives us the greatest 
opportunity for improvement. The burden of the latter stages of 
reconstruction will be borne by those who are now students. We 
must therefore aim constantly at better education and preparation 
for future work. Let us, then, give our best effort and thought to 
school work and the task which lies before us. 

THE CELEBRATION ON ARMISTICE DAY 

It wasn't long after school had been dismissed, on Thursday, 
November 7, that the whistles began to blow and the bells rang. 
When we found out that it was the reported signing of the armis- 
tice, an impromptu parade of automobiles was formed. After 
riding around for a time, some one conceived the happy idea of 
coming to school and getting the service flag and A. P. H. S. ban- 
ners. When, on the following Monday morning, we heard the 
armistice had really been signed, the A. P. H. S. turned out en- 
semble, and formed the marchers of a long parade. After march- 
ing around Asbury Park for a while, the route was made to include 
Ocean Grove. When we were joined by representation from Nep- 
tune H. S., the parade went down Main St., through Bradley 
Beach, and back to Asbury again. The final lap of the march 



74 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

took the paraders through the business section to Steinbach's 
corner, where they dispersed. Again, Monday night, there was a 
large delegation from the school in the parade, which, added to 
the ground covered in the morning, sent home many tired and 
footsore, but happy A. P. H. S. students. 

CELEBRATION IN NEW YORK CITY OVER THE END OF THE WAR, 
NOVEMBER II, ICjl8. 

The following letter written by the editor to his sister was 
printed in "The Daily News," Shamokin, Penna., about November 
21. It gives a description of the great metropolis with the "lid. 
off" on the day the armistice was signed November n, 1918. It 
was thought that a copy of this letter might make a fitting end to 
this record of events herein recorded. . 

Asbury Park, N. J., November 18, 1918. 
My dear Flo: 

On a gray misty morn, one week after the celebration, life is 
still radiant with joy and the outward details of life no longer 
matter, for the War — Thank God — is over. 

But few persons realized the depth and blackness of the pall 
that hung over our spirits until the cloud was lifted and the radiant 
light of victory of righteousness filled the empyreum and flooded 
our souls with "a light that never rested on land or sea." 

Everything one holds dear was in the balance. It was not 
merely autocracy versus democracy in a political sense but all the 
moral and spiritual values— the noble and heroic traditions of 
the race which Christianity has ushered in and which the race 
has garnered up from time immemorial. 

For the War Lords of Germany had taught that the bestial 
forces of might were supreme and that truth, honor, love, noble 
faith and sympathy were sentimental ideas worthy of the weak. 
It was more than a conflict of political ideas — it was a conflict 
of philosophies in which our foes had raised the graven image of 
rank materialism. 

What New York did on the occasion of victory is beyond 
adequate description. Early on the morning of the nth I was 
awakened in North Asbury by the piercing noise of the siren on a 
fire engine which passed the house. Then the bells began ringing 



THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 75 

and the whistles blowing and I soon realized what it all meant. 

This all began sometime after day break. Dressing quickly 
I went down town and joined the crowds gathering about the 
Press Office. There was the bulletin on the window telling in 
large black letters of the end of the world war. Newsies darting 
in every direction were crying "Extra ! Extra ! End of the World 
War." The motor fire trucks were dashing thru the streets and 
such a ringing of bells, touting of horns and sirens one never 
did hear. 

After breakfast we gathered at the high school. There was 
no thought of school that day. Before long we were formed in 
an impromtu parade. It increased in size as it passed thru Asbury, 
Ocean Grove, Bradley Beach and several other small nearby 
places. 

After this celebration and an early lunch, Mr. Huff and I 
decided to go over to New York. As we neared the city the train 
became packed and it was evident that many people for a hundred 
miles around were moving toward the metropolis to add to its five 
million celebrants. 

Going over the North River I looked at the wonderful skyline 
and said to Mr. Huff, "Just think what it might have been." 

On the way up to 23rd Street, the river presented an in- 
teresting sight of camflouaged vessels and far up on the east side 
the river were three or four transports filled with Blue and Khaki, 
but now waving frantically and screaming with joy. 

We were soon at 23rd and Broadway where we took to foot. 
Both the pavements and the street were one solid mass of human 
beings. There were continuous processions of all sorts bearing 
signs and making all kind of noises. I looked on the right and 
there was a great marker written in French letters of gold — 
"They Shall Not Pass !" — and down below simply such words as 
"Marne, Cambria, Cantigny and Chateau Thierry." 

Now it was history and I thought what names are those to 
the teeming millions that should follow. 

The rest of the afternoon, all night and way into the next 
morning recall just one huge impression in which the details are 
largely missing. 

Most of our time was spent between 23rd and 48th Streets 
on Broadway and Fifth Avenue. Everywhere there was one vast 



j6 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

throng of moving humanity — back and front and from left to right 
one great glare of lights, one great and continuous din, one wild 
acclaim. 

It was tremendous and never to be forgotten. Mingled in 
the crowds and the procession, there were a great number of 
American soldiers and sailors together with those of France and 
some of the other allies. 

Everything one sees on Hallow'een or Election Night, New 
Years Eve or at other carnivals, was there in full! The most 
striking banner I saw was one which quoted Bill Hohenzollern to 
Ambassador Girard: "After this war I will have no nonsense 
from America." Bill ought to have been in New York that night 
and read the bitter irony of fate. 

Yours as ever, 

F. 



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CHAPTER XIV 

A COLLECTION OF SONGS USED IN SCHOOL DURING 

THE WAR 

OVER THERE 

Johnnie, get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, 

Take it on the run, on the run, on the run ; 

Hear them calling you and me ; 

Ev'ry son of liberty. 

Hurry right away, no delay, go today, 

Make your daddy glad to have had such a lad, 

Tell your sweetheart not to pine, 

To be proud her boy's in line. 

Ref. 
Over there, over there, 
Send the word, send the word, over there, 
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming, 
The drums rum-tumming every where. 
So prepare, say a pray'r, 
Send the word, send the word, to beware, 
We'll be over, we're coming over, 
And we won't come back till it's over over there. 

Johnnie get your gun, get your gun, get your gun, 
Johnnie show the Hun, you're a son-of-a-gun, 
Hoist the flag and let her fly, 
Like true heroes do or die. 

Pack your little kit, show your grit, do your bit, 
Soldiers to the ranks from the towns and the tanks, 
Make your mother proud of you. 
And to liberty be true. 

PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES 

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and 

smile, smile, smile. 
While you've a lucifer to light your fag, 

smile boys, that's the style. 
What's the use of worrying ? It never was worth 

while ; 
So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and 

smile, smile, smile. 



78 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Get out your dollars in a nice big stack and 

buy, buy, buy. 
While there's a soldier that is not yet back, 

buy and never sigh. 
Buy your bonds now cheerfully for the boys have 

done their job 
So ! Get out your dollars in a nice big stack and 

buy, buy, buy. 

GOOD MORNING, MISTER ZIP-ZIP-ZIP 

We come from every quarter, 
From North, South, East and West, 
To clear the way to freedom 
For the land we love the best 
We left our occupations and homes so 

far and dear, 
But when the going's rather rough, 
We raise this song of cheer : 

Ref. 
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, 
With your hair cut just as short as mine, 
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, 
You're surely looking fine ! 
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, 
If the Camels don't get you, 
The Fatimas must, 
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip, 
With your hair cut just as short as, 
Your hair cut just as short as, 
Your hair cut just as short as mine. 

You see them on the highway, 
You meet them down the pike 
In olive drab and khaki 
Are soldiers on the hike, 
And as the column passes, 
The word goes down the line, 
Good morning, Mister Zip-Zip-Zip 
You're surely looking fine. 



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HINDUSTAN 

Hindustan, where we stopped to rest our tired caravan ; 
Hindustan, where the painted peacock proudly spread his fan ; 
Hindustan, where the purple sunbird flashed across the sand ; 
Hindustan, where I met her and the world began. 

KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING 

They were summoned from the hillside; 
They were called in from the glen, 
And the country found them ready 
At the stirring call for men. 
Let no tears add to their hardships 
As the soldiers pass along, 
And although your heart is breaking, 
Make it sing this cheery song. 

Ref. 
Keep the Home fires burning, 
While your hearts are yearning, 
Though your lads are far away 
They dream of Home ; 
There's a silver lining 
Through the dark clouds shining, 
Turn the dark cloud inside out, 
Till the boys come Home. 

Over seas there comes a pleading, 
"Help a Nation in distress," 
And we gave our glorious laddies; 
Honour bade us do no less. 
For no gallant Son of freedom 
To a tyrant's yoke should bend, 
And a noble heart must answer 
To the sacred call of "Friend." 

it's a long way to tipperary 

Up to mighty London came an Irishman one day 
As the streets are paved with gold, sure everyone was gay ; 
Singing songs of Piccadilly, Strand and Leicester Square, 
Till Paddy got excited, then he shouted to them there : 



80 THE WAR WORK OF A. P. H. S. 

Ref. 

It's a long long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go ; 
It's a long way to Tipperary to the sweetest girl I know. 
Goodbye Piccadilly, farewell Leicester Square, 
It's a long, long, way to Tipperary, But my heart's right there. 

Paddy wrote a letter to his Irish Molly O' 
Saying, "Should you not receive it, write and let me know." 
"If I make mistakes in spelling, Molly dear," said he, 
"Remember it's the pen that's bad, don't lay the blame on me." 
Molly wrote a neat reply to Irish Paddy O', 
Saying "Mike Maloney wants to marry me, and so 
Leave the Strand and Piccadilly, or you'll be to blame, 
For love has fairly drove me silly — Hoping you're the same." 

SMILES 

Dearie, now I know 

Just what makes me love you so, 

Just what holds me and enfolds me 

In its golden glow; — 

Dearie, now I see 

'Tis each smile so bright and free, 

For life's sadness turns to gladness 

When you smile on me. 

Ref. 
There are smiles that make us happy, 
There are smiles that make us blue, 
There are smiles that steal away the tear drops 
As the sunbeams steal away the dew, 
There are smiles that have a tender meaning 
That the eyes of love alone may see, 
And the smiles that fill my life with sunshine 
Are the smiles that you give to me. 

Dearie, when you smile 
Everything in life's worth while, 
Love grows fonder as we wander 
Down each magic mile; 
Cheery melodies 
Seem to float upon the breeze, 
Doves are cooing while they're wooing 
In the leafy trees. 



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LITTLE GREY HOME IN THE WEST 

When the golden sun sinks in the hills, 

And the toil of a long day is o'er — 

Though the road may be long in the lilt of a song 

I forget I was weary before. 

Far ahead, where the blue shadows fall, 

I shall come to contentment and rest ; 

And the toils of the day will be all charmed away 

In my little grey home in the west. 

There are hands that will welcome me in, 

There are lips I am burning to kiss — 

There are two eyes that shine just because they are mine, 

And a thousand things other men miss. 

It's a corner of heaven itself 

Though its only a tumble-down nest — 

But with love brooding there, why no place can compare 

With my little grey home in the west. 



THERE S A LONG LONG TRAIL 

Nights are growing very lonely, 

Days are very long; 

I'm a-gr owing weary only 

List'ning for your song. 

Old remembrances are thronging 

Thro' my memory. 

Till it seems the world is full of dreams 

Just to call you back to me. 

Ref. 
There's a long, long, trail awinding 
Into the land of my dreams, 
Where the nightingales are singing 
And a white moon beams : 
There's a long, long night of waiting 
Until my dreams all come true; 
Till the day when I'll be going down 
That long, long trail with you. 



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All night long I hear you calling, 

Calling sweet and low; 

Seem to hear your footsteps falling, 

Ev'rywhere I go. 

Tho' the road between us stretches 

Many a weary mile, 

I forget that you're not with me yet, 

When I think I see you smile. 

Ev'ry tear will be a memory, 

So wait and pray each night for me, 

Till we meet again. 

Tho' goodbye means the birth of a tear drop 

Hello means the birth of a smile 

And the smile will erase, 

The tear blighting trace, 

When we meet in the after-a-while. 



TILL WE MEET AGAIN 

There's a song in the land of the lily 

Each sweetheart has heard with a sigh 

Over high garden walls 

This sweet echo falls 

As a soldier boy whispers good-bye. 

Ref. 

Smile the while you kiss me sad adieu 

When the clouds roll by 

I'll come to you. 

Then the skies will seem more blue 

Down in lovers lane my dearie, 

Wedding bells will ring so merrily 



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DEAR OLD PAL OF MINE 

All my life is empty, 

Since I went away, 

Skies don't seem to be so clear, 

May some angel sentry, 

Guard you while I stray, 

And fate be kind to join us some sweet day. 

Ref. 
Oh, How I want you, 
Dear old pal of mine, 

Each night and day I pray you're always mine. 
Sweetheart may God bless you, 
Angel hands caress you, 
While sweet dreams rest you, 
Dear old pal of mine. 

Dearie I'm so lonely, 

How I miss your smile, 

And your tender loving way, 

I just want you only, 

Want you all the while 

May God decree I have you back some day. 

THE ROSE OF NO MAN'S LAND 

I've seem some beautiful flowers, 
Grow in life's garden fair, 
I've spent some wonderful hours, 
Lost in their fragrance rare; 
But I have found another, 
Wondrous beyond compare. 

Ref. 
There's a rose that grows on "No Man's Land" 
And it's wonderful to see, 

Though it's sprayed with tears, it will live for years, 
In my garden of memories, 
It's the one red rose the soldier knows, 
It's the work of the Master's hand; 
'Mid the war's dread curse, stands the Red Cross Nurse, 
She's the rose of "No Man's Land." 



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Out of the heavenly splendor, 
Down to the trail of woe, 
God in his mercy sent her, 
Cheering the world below; 
We call her "Rose of Heaven," 
We've learned to love her so. 

OH ! HOW I HATE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING 

The other day I chanced to meet a soldier friend of mine. 
He'd been in camp for several weeks and he was looking fine, 
His muscles had developed and his cheeks were rosy red, 
I asked him how he liked the life, and this is what he said : 

Chorus. 

"Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning, 
Oh ! how I'd love to remain in bed, 
For the hardest blow of all, 
Is to hear the bugler call — 
You've got to get up, you've got to get up, 
You've got to get up this morning. 
Some day I'm going to murder the bugler, 
Some day they're going to find him dead, 
I'll amputate his reveille, 
And step on it heavily, 
And spend the rest of my life in bed." 

A bugler in the army is the luckiest of men, 

He wakes the boys at five and then goes back to bed again, 

He doesn't have to blow again until the afternoon, 

If everything goes well with me I'll be a bugler soon. 

(Compiled by Lillian Broder, '20) 



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CHAPTER XV 

A LIST OF STUDENTS AND ALUMNI IN THE SERVICE 

The following is a list of all our students and alumni in the 
service of whom we were able to learn. 



Rieu, Frederick 



Class 1 92 1 



Bernocco, George 
Brown, William 
Cardillo, Charles 
Chamberlain, James 



Class 1920 



Jeffries, George 
Moore, Edward 
Warner, Garth 
Ehrhart, Philip T. 



Class 1919 



Becker, Earnest 
Brown, Horace 
Chaf ey, William K. 
Corish, Gene 
Estelle, Bruce 
Forfar, Abbott 
Kleiberg, Harry- 
McCarthy, Frank 



Patterson, George 
Phillips, Adrian 
Potter, Percy 
Stonaker, Clifford 
Warner, Roscoe 
Wilson, Dave 
Wood, Albert 



Class 1918 



Borden, Jacob 
Burrell, Clarence 
Burrell, Nathaniel 
Carse, Marion 
Chamberlain, James 
Mayer, Lewis 



Porch, Francis M. 
Shoemaker, Elizabeth 
Taylor, Hugh S. 
Walton, Harry B. 
Whyte, Twyford 
Windsor, Harold 



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Class 191 7 



Anderson, John 
Bearmore, Albert 
Bernocco, Frank 
Becker, William 
Bloodgood, Norman 
Brown, B. Franklin 
Couse, William Percy 
Duffy, William 
Durand, Walter 
Drew, Leslie 



Ginn, Leonard 
Hammell, Eugene 
Huber, Jerome 
Leonard, Lester 
Luttge, Julius 
RudlofT, Everett 
Smith, Norman 
Van Kirk, Russell 
Vola, Andrew 



Class 1916 



Allen, Frank 
Bennett, Joseph 
Bloodgood, Dudley 
Catte, Jack 
Conover, Earle 
Farrow, Edward 
Gardner, Russell 
Goetz, Gustav H. 



Height, Leon 
Minyard, William 
Pear, Sam 
Pryor, Arthur 
Rockafeller, John 
Rydell, Willis 
Swan, James 



Class 191 5 



Blades, Charles 
Brown, Peter 
Chamberlain, Clarence 
Day, Adolphus 
Fleck, Joseph 
Forsyth, James 
Guerin, Samuel 
Grossman, Simon 
Ladow, Arthur 
Landin, Harold 
Layton, Vincent 



McMurray, Wayne 
O'Hagan, W. Joseph 
Pierce, Ennis 
Southward, Wilbur 
Smock, Harry 
Steward, Harold 
Taylor, William 
Teunon, Russell 
Teunon, Stanley 
Wilbur, Franklin 



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Class 19 14 



Burton, Oliver Donn 
Cavanaugh, George 
Flanagan, Joseph 
Hetrick, J. H. Werner 
Hope, Edward M. 
Hunter, Tom 
Jones, Francis 



Appleby, Theodore, F. 
Atchley, Donald 
Brown, Herbert, Jr. 
Burton, Donald I. 
Durand, Frank Jr. 
Garvey, Woolsey 



Class 191 3 



Ludlum, James 
Mattice, Martin 
Simmons, Vernon 
Taylor, Kroehl 
Tusting, Philip 
Winkler, Ross 
Young, Charles Pickney 



Hickman, Alfred 
Hope, Arthur Fred 
Hunt, Dr. Wilson 
Megill, Charles E. 
Sterner, Donald 
Stephens, John H. 



Class 1912 



Burtis, J. Ralph 
Coble, G. Franklin 
Coleman, Melville 
Cornell, Edith M. 
Couse, Joseph 
Harvey, Stanley 
Hayes, Harry 
Jones, James 



Jones, Joseph 
Rockafellow, Eugene 
Rocka fellow, Harry J. 
Rowan, Richard 
Sampson, J. 
Schaeuen, Saul 
West, Paul 



Class 191 1 



Duffield, Le Roy 
McMurray, Donald 
Newman, Everett 



Gant, Charles H. 
Gazda, Adolf A. 
Knapp, Gordon 



Class 1910 



Ralston, James 
Taylor, Paul 



Morrow, Otway 
Rugarber, Charles 



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Class 1909 



Duffield, Harry Jr. 
Glass, Edward 
Ross, Henry M. 



Turner, Natalie 



Morrow, Robert 
Ross, Gillespie 



Slocum, Esther 



Burdge, Dr. Fred 
Hetrick, Dr. L. W. 



Ross, Milan Jr. 
Yetman, Kenneth 



Class 1908 
Class 1907 

Class 1905 
Unclassified 



Sterner, J. Willard 



Palmateer, Dr. Stanley 
Potts, Dr. George W. 



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